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We leav e these pages u ncriticised , and direct your attention to what is really excellent m the narrative ; for , although it is inaccurate and French it is intensely interesting , and carries you on with the fascination of romance . No extract of ours would convey an idea pf the picturesqueness and sustained animation of the narrative . . Get the book and read it . Besides the account of Waterloo , you will find a biographical study of Murat done with immense splendour , and some portraits here and there which exhibit all Lamartine ' s fine qualities . ^
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BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The German Language in One Volume . By Falckh Lebahn . Fourth Edition . Simpkin and Marshall . We have on more than one occasion expressed our opinion of Mr . Falekh Lebahn ' s system , especially adapted for self tuition , and have only now to state that this volume before us contains a practical grammar with exercises—Undine , with its explanatory notes—a vocabulary of 4500 words synonymous in German and English—and a Key to the Exercises . Martin Toutrond ; or . Adventures of a Frenchman in London By James Morier . ( Bentley ' s Shilling Series . ) Bentley . A reprint in the Shilling Series issued by Mr . Bentley for Railway reading , very poorly illustrated with woodcuts . The humour of the book is quiet and not unamusing , but unfortunately the idea of a Frenchman writing his impressions of London has been hacknied in Punch , and surpassed in extravagance by the actual " impressions " of Frenchmen .
The Scarlet Letter . A Romance . By Nathaniel Hawthorne . ( Railway Library . ) G . lloutledge . Is there any one of our readers unacquainted with the Scarlet Letter , that romance par excellence ? Let him at once step out from such a minority and invest a shilling in a treat such as he rarely can purchase !
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History of the Whig Ministry of 1830 to the Passing of the Reform Bill , By J . A . iCoebuck , M . P . 2 vols . J . W . Parker and Son . Eludet sur W . Shakspeare , Marie Stuart , et L'Aretin . Par PhilarCte Chasles . - W . Jeffa . Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ottoli . By It . W . Emerson and W . H . Channing-. 3 voli . Bentley . TJie Daltons . By Charles LeTer . Chapman and Hall . The Life and Adventures ofMervyn Clitheroe . By W . Harrison Ainsworth . Chapman and Hall . The British Quarterly Review , for February . Jackson and Walford . The British Journal , for Februaiy . Aylott and Jones . Mr . Sponge ' s Sporting Tour . With Illustrations by Leech . Part II . Bradbury and Evans .
Story of a Feather . Part I . By Douglas Jerrold . Fraser's Magazine , for February . Parker and Son , Tait ' s Magazine , for February . Simpkin , Marshal , and Co , The Comic History of Rome . No . 9 and 10 . Illustrated by Leech . Bradbury and Evans , Knight ' s Pictorial Shakespere . Charles Knight . Shakspere ' s History . Charles Knight . Half Hours of English History . By Charles Knight . Charles Knight . The Country House . Charles Knight . Curiosities of Industry . Charles Knight . The Companion Shakspere . Part I . King John and King Itichard HI . Charles Knight . Half Hours with the Best Authors . With Biographical and Critical Notices . Charles Knight .
The Best Story-Tellers . A Collection of Popular Fictions of All Nations . Charles Knight . The North British Review . Kennedy , Edinburgh . The Reasoner . Part 78 . Watson . Chamber * 's Pocket Miscellany , Vol . II . Orr and Co , The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets , Philosophers , % e , Part II . Orr and Co . The Poetic Review . By J . Passmore Edwards . The Public Good . By J . Passmoro EdwardB . The Biographical Magazine , By J . Pnssmore Edwards . The Protpective Review . A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature . John Chapman ,
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , the Useful encourages itself . — Gobthk .
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ASPECTS OF DEATH . Time rolls , and month by month The ups welling blood of nature fills her veins , And the bright wooing sun From the dear earth hath won , A tender blush of flowers that gladden all her plains The waves come leaping in , And I lie clasp'd within The kind warm arms of nature . I could die In such a mood as this , my limbs dissolved Should be to some new herb of loveliest shape resolved .
And I would pour my soul , A cup of spirit-wine from out its breathing bowl , To help the electric force Which , wings the stars on their unchanging course , Or sprouts among the leaves , and I could be So lost in nature as to compensate for me . So dreams the poet , thinking , So dreams the artist , drinking Fresh draughts of beauty every fresh-creafed day . Till o ' er his half-escaped spirits sweep
Enchaining human memories , fond and deep . Dear brothers , strong and true , Had I , forgetting you , Surrender'd up my spirit before the throne Of great Queen Nature , did you but require My love , my service , from the quivering fire , From rock , and wave , and flower , I know would start The outward forms and strengths of my unwavering heart ; And my life spring obedient when you claim'd your
own . I fear not life , mine eyes are bold for seeing , I fear not death , nor any change of being . Meek for the present , strong for the corning day , I tell my soul to be , as be it may , Only I fear that I , who walk along , Guarded in human love , so happy and so strong , Be ' cut from such communion , and the roll Of Death ' s impenetrable waters surge alone my soul . Oh grave ! Hast thou the victory over love ? Love with the fearless eyes ? I do not think That our frail brotherhood , if moving towards that brink . Beneath whose unseen depth lies black oblivion , Could wear the high and beautiful aspect When it goes forth to conquer ill , and give Proof that the holy hope and dare to live . Oh grave ! Hast thou the victory over love ? Black shadow , creep not over sunny life , Which , stirring to put forth , Some flowers of heavenly worth Shrinks from thine image in unequal strife . Oh thou , who gatherest youth , Genius , and beauty to thy dark embrace , Let one dear smile of pity gleam upon thy face . Seeds that we sow in God , expand io flowers above , Leave us , who lose so much , eternity and love . _ B .
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LIBERTY OF VOCATION . Whenever we come to explore the foundations of social polity , with intent to ascertain the latent law by which they are sustained , we are invariably referred to those constitutional elements in man which render him capable of association with his fellows—to that instinct for society which proves a helpful intercourse and communion among mankind to be a preordained necessity . But inasmuch as the material world is constituted with a view to human uses , and thus men could not long associate together save on terms of mutual interest , it
is obvious that Society must be formed , and indeed tend to shape itself , in such wise as shall in some sort , or in some particular , conduce to the general advantage ; and that , without an aim or tendency of this kind , it cannot possibly be maintained . The definite manifestation it may take will undoubtedly be determined by the circumstances which operate most powerfully in connecting men together in different stages of their development ; in rude ages the desire of mere security , the , passion for
conq uest , and the like ; and in stages of higher civilization commercial exigencies , community of ideas , assimilation of habits , peculiarities of culture ; but in every case there must be some pr inciple of unity , some binding condition which renders the maintenance of the society desirable , by more or less contributing to the general service and contentment . Without this element pf common benefit , no society could originate ; and in proportion as it becomes extinguished in communities—which
alis no finality short of absolute perfection--it is likewise clear that every successive form which society may assume will be required to include the original element of a common advantage and convenience , and to extend to its component members such prospects and opportunities of well-being as the expanding character of their culture andaspir ations shall demand . All the external facts of time
ways happens when partial and selfish interest obtain an exclusive or dominant developmenfe-J n such proportion does the society always tend towards decay , and may be expected to fall ultimate ^ into anarchy and dissolution * * ' It is only as a visible and living representation of the laws of being that society can possess anv enduring subsistence or stability . And though it is manifest that every social development is a growth which , by the law of human progress , must disappear and give place to some new and larger manifestation of the social principle—so that the ™
and circumstance , all the combinations of social power and expediency , must have a just relation to the tendencies which subsist in the nature and mind of man . For the essential capabilities of human nature are the true and sole foundations for whatever is to be manifested in the thought , activity , or life of human beings j since that which is inwardly present in man ' s nature must of necessity incline to reveal itself in his outward acts and
efforts , and predetermine his authentic destination . The service which constituted societies render , in the way of providing for the individual needs of men , is necessarily varied , as we say , by the objects of men ' s pursuit in their different social stages , and definitely modified by the peculiarities of the prevailing cultivation . Under barbarism and feudal forms of polity , in which the relations of intercourse and connection are extremely rude and simple , the will of the leader or territorial proprietor is the commonest symbol or revelation of the law by which the community is united ; and ,
as the person invested with that significant position usually represents , in a demonstrative and more eminent degree , the general sense and aims of his adherents , it follows that , by the superiority of his insight and decision , he is able successfully to conduct them towards the objects which they are instinctively , though leas consciously , pursuing . The quality of his leadership may be said to lie in his gift for discerning what his associates and dependants are in quest of j and he is their actual king and champion by virtue of his capacity for aiding and directing them in the way of its attainment . Under circumstances such at > these , the
liberties of the individual are but imperfectly regarded , and , indeed , are often necessarily s acrificed to the paramount requirements of the occasion , But as a higher and more liberal civilization becomes established , there grows up a tendency in the society to relax the primitive stringency of relationship , and to recognise more distinctly the rights of personality—a tendency to detach and isolate the individual from the mass , and to _
surround him with independent and superior advantages . And in this , we think , may be perceived an indication that it is the drift of progress to exalt and honour man in his personal and private being ; to furnish him with opportunities for the more perfect manifestation of his inborn attributes ; to give him scope for the exercise of , his individual qualities and aptitudes ; so that every variety oi genius , talent , and capacity shall , in the end , get successfully developed , and have leave to work in
freedom for the general social welfare . This is , in our apprehension , the highest state or Liberty . A man ' true and only reasonable liberty is that which enables or constrains him to do what mosc effectually tends to promote the advancement ot ms moral interests , and to perfect him in such disciplines as will facilitate his usefulness as a rational and responsible personation of humanity . ** ence the most desirable kind of liberty that could V » sought after is probably that which has been ap » y styled the " Liberty of Vocation . " That a man
should have freedom and opportunity to » UU 1 ^ himself to such pursuits as will best display h » s force , and illustrate the bent and determination oi his character—that he should so manifest his nature and the inclination of his faculties as to work ou for himself a mode of action and of living answerauw to the tendency of his constitution—seems to u one of the first and most important requisites towards the fulfilment of his destiny . An order oi employments founded upon human aptltu ^[ whereby each should be furthered and encourage " to seloct that in which he can beet of all ** ?* T ' would evidently be tho truest method that oouia u *
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Oyster Lifk . — Somebody has styled fodsiliferous rocks " monuments of the felicity of past ages . " An undisturbed oyster-bed is a concentration of happiness in the present . Dormant though the several creatures there congregated seem , each individual is leading the beatified existence of an Epicurean god . The world without—its cares and joy * , its storms and calms , its passions , evil and good—" all ore indifferent to the unheeding oyster . Unobservant even of what passes in its immediate vicinity , its whole soul is concentrated in itself ; yet not sluggishly and
apathetically , for its body is throbbing with life and enjoyment . The mighty ocean is subservient to its pleasures . Tho rolling waves waft fresh and choice food within its reach , and the flow of tho curent feeds it without requiring an effort . Each atom of water that comes in contact with its delicate gills evolves its imprisoned air to freshen and invigorate the creature ' s pelluoid blood . Invisible to human eye , unless aided by the wonderful inventions of human science , countless millions of vibrating oilia are moving incessantly with synohronio beat on every fibre of each fringing leaflet .- — Westminster Review , No , HI .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1921/page/20/
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