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    Yet how many must-one'try on before he gets suited ? There never appeared a religion but there were souls to receive it . Yet how many must ; a soul entertain before it is satisfied P If one is earnest and wise , I can ttell him of a religion that will not give him satisfaction j if he is stupid . and vain , I know one will just suit him . It is not a church yet , but has iits soul ' s . guides and liturgies , and will soon get its priests and Larger and Shorter Catechisms . It will guide him to the appearance of wisdom , which will serve him instead of the reality . It will tell ihim of infinities and eternals within and beyond his soul , by

    pointing to which he shall achieve a greater reputation for thought and expression than if he were to clothe endless finites and temporals with beautiful word-dresses from the wardrobes of Apollo . That to him will be satisfaction . If he is a blatherer , I can strongly recommend it to his attention . Wisdom is always cairn ; its words lead trippingly to truth as the dove led JEneaS to the golden branch . Stupidity blathers j but blathering is justified by inspiration ! This , O Blatherer , is the religion for thee 1 Go thunder round thy subject under a press of inspirations , like a cooper round a cask . Obscurity waits for thy enthusiasm ; be metaphor and analogy , thy Urim and ! lWaiinim —• the bump of Imagination thy Holy of Holies !

    " I cannot well tell you what their esoteric teaching is . The use of lan-? guage is to convey intelligible thoughts . The thoughts I anl going to convey to you are unintelligible ; the language purely metaphorical ; the reasoning wholly from analogy . A painful necessity of language compels us to speak of spiritual things as if they were material : we are going to dabour in an unknown world with tools of earth . Man is both , a poetic tand religious animal . With the poetic side of his nature he touches a ¦ world of Imagination ; with the religious , a world of Spirit . As the world of ether of physical p hilosophers is one ether , so the world of spirit is one spirit . Of that spirit we are parts , living in it , in a state of separation , encased in bodies . We are as if we were in bottles in an ocean . Some of us inhabit quart bottles , some pint bottles , some infinitesimally small vesieules- Our geniuses are in gallon measures ; some have occupied

    hogsheads . . STone of us are hermetically sealed in : we are subject to intermixture with the ocean , by oozings , as it were , through our corks and bung-holes . Some of us , in stone jugs , can . see nothing of the ocean ; some in blue bottles , ^ tlbers in gre en , see it after a fashion . A few , in thin transparent crystals , corked with sponge , are men of enlarged views 1 We ; are all of us incarnated lessons , what Windrush calls modes of divine teaching ! When our cases crack , or our corks fly out , we become absorbed ; in the ocean . Whilejn our cases : —here I submit to the highest spiritual authority .

    • " * There is but one ocean contained in all individual bottles . Every kottie has an inlet to the same , and to all of the same . He that is once adoaiUed to the right of residing in a transparent bottle is made free of the wfeole ocean . What was in Plato ' s hogshead , he may get into his bottle ; what a sponge head ha 8 felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen aaay bottle , he can perceive through his own . Who hath the whole oceaaa . in his bottle , is a party to all that is or can be done ; for this is the only asid sovereign agent . ' .

    " Everything in nature is in motion . It is either going to a centre , or from a centre , or round a centre . Where it was once , it will be again . You differ from your fellow man , and leave his company . The whole diameter of the circle of opinion separates you from him . Do you think you will never meet P Fool , you have but gone the round more rapidly ithan he has . See , you already approach him from behind ! Mistymind us unconsciously treading on Chatband ' s heels . When he taps him on the shoulder , neither will be astonished . Mistymind has a grand project for the suppression of priests . He is the originator of the

    Anti-priestoppreKsion Association . When ho has suppressed the priests , ho thinks men wiM follow Nature . And so they will . Nature is a manifold writer . With greater or leas clearness , she has written her laws on every man's mind . Bat all do not know her cipher ! Nature , says Misty mind , abhors priests , but loves interpreters . ' Homo natur ; o minister et interpres' is the only portion of Bacon ' s celebrated maxim ever quoted b y Mistymind . Well , let him have his interpreters , and bind thorn to Ins own interpretation . Surely tlio road will now be straight and pleasant . Nay , for a priest is of the party ! He has dropped his cassock , and reappears with black silk gloves and an umbrella , ; not from an extra--mundane court , but as his own ambassador . Verily , the old waa the Ibetter company !"

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    A BACHELOR OF AftTR One of the pleasantc-at , happiost pieceswhich has boon produced for some « jno , waaproducod in the fog of WednoHtlay lost , at the Lychitm . J . ta origin , ia On demande un Gouvcmour , a , two-act comedy which had groat HiKwoHH at the GymnaBo . It Iuih boon Englished , with only hero and there T > {\ lUiG ° ^ * ta original colouring . The adaptor ia announced us Mr . 1 olluun Hardwieko ; but a nlav-troincr public will ! havo little dillienlty in

    "twoting tlio hmul of Charles Mafchowa in many piirts of tlio dialogue . no idea iH Ono moro humorous than probable , but probability ia not a < nimntio virtue . Young Jasper I ian run through his fortune , iuid wantH « Jj locoitomonfc . The advertisement of " Wanted a Tutor for a boy of 18 " II U 1 «!' , Wt / tt surely must hnvo emanated fitom an old fogy . <» ' »< ' <> f 'lli \ old school "—a guy in pigtail and silyor bueldoH . Can't one " got L ! of l ; nail voHpootablo ' " pnrty V" JaNpor'thmltH " rather ! " . Ho olrl ' ' i m ' ' * m < !^ i < iuorod . . Instead of" an old fogy , ho hoobr kind ^ «• gontloman , whom it would bo a tditimo to mliz . To got out of tlio < ix ' > ' || 1 ° wi | '" ° . : dolay , lio announces bin < pmlifi <} iiiionR aa tutor to bou Vj "'' , hilliardH , pro-ominon (! o in quoNtioiiH of wiuo and hornolloHh , for i 'H \ um tfu ™»» tf , n frailty foktho Htron ^ or Hex , numeral contempt "' i-ucUvsmon ' H billH , and a , healthy itnioraneo of Latin mid ( Ireolc m

    short , a Vivian on a small scale , . plus the ignorance , and minus the Christian Fathers !• An ideal tutor ! A man to be cherished in the bosom of families ! A blessing to parents , and a delight to sons ! You fancy , perhaps , that this programme leads to his being bowed politely out of the house ? He fancied it would be so . ' But parents and guardians are such queer people ! Old Thornton , instead of bowing him out , accepts him on the spot ; places him in command not only of his son , but of his entire establishment during a temporary absence ! The secret of this conduct is ( dramatically ) very simple . He recognises in Jasper the scapegrace son of an old friend , who has begged him to reclaim , if possible , at all events to befriend , that son .

    Jasper , seated on the domestic throne , finds work enough to hand . The " boy" has a love affair with an Arabella Mountstuart , who without ostensible fortune keeps a very ostensible Brougham . She is the loveliest and fairest of her sex . One ' s " flame" always is , you know ; were it not so , love and marriage would be impossible , for we should be always pursuing that eluding and deluding Ideal , and never settling down into comfortable credulity respecting our Janes and Julias , Carolines and Mary Annes .

    Jasper , not being in love , has other theories respecting Arabella ; his task is therefore to win the confidence of his pupil , and wean him from Arabella and lier Brougham . He has other tasks ; one , a very delicate task for any man to undertake , namely , the unmasking of a libertine who makes love to old Thornton's pretty wife ; the second , a very difficult one , namely , the outwitting of a wily old scoundrel who has in his possession a document which affects the honour of the family . In these tasks he succeeds , and wins the heart of the ingenuous Emma ; but koto he does these things must not here be told . The intrigue is both ingenious and clear , the incidents amusing , and the interest unflagging . The whole tone of the piece is that of direct healthy comedy , and emphatically I say , go and fudge for yourself !

    The acting is excellent . Charles Mathews plays the part of Jasper with that natural ease in which he is unrivalled ( an ease often degenerating into carelessness , and passing out of the sphere of acting , for in its avoidance of "/ points , " it has often the effect of mere slovenliness , and is not painting , bxit the " scumbling in" of haste or indifference ) with , that charm of manner the secret of which belongs to him alone , —with that gaiety which never runs into coarseness , —and with that nice perception of characteristic detail , never obtrusive , always effective ; and finally with that well-bred air which distinguishes all he does . Moreover , I would specially call attention to the very effective reading of his father ' s letter , which closes the first act—its natural unstrained pathos produced what the Italians call a "knot in the throat" of us all , a choking sensation , which only fine acting will produce . Frank Mathews is also unusually truthful ancl effective in the part of Andrew Wilie , one of the beat bits of character in his repertoire .

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    LOVE'S ALARMS . But how about the new one act opera P I promised to see it ; and oh ! the value of promises ! I haven ' t . Who could see anything through , this week's fogsr ( I didn ' t go on Wednesday through the fog to the Lyceum , but through the slops of Thursday . ) Instead of Love ' s Alarms it was Fog ' s Alarms to me . But although I haven't seen it , I can tell you in a brief pregnant sentence all about it . No man who has looked at life as a philosopher can have any doubt ou the nature of Loves Alarms—namely , wedlock and eight children ; if that is not alarming , what is V Vivian .

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    WEDNESDAY EVENING ! CONCERTS . As we were prevented by " circumstances over which we had no control ; " in other words , by the fog , from reaching Exeter Hall before nine o'clock on Wednesday night , just as the last bars of Mendelssohn ' s " Italian" Symphony were bein ^ played , wo can only , in our character of honest , rather than ubiquitous , reporters , assure our readers how great a 'loss we , in common with many hundreds , sustained . The programme of this concert was particularly rich , the first part being devoted entirely to Mendelssohn , llie second of his concert-overtures , known in . England iifl A calm , sea and a prosperous' voyage , was executed Under Mr .

    Benedict ' s direction in a manner that loft little to bo desired . According to a-recent suggestion of the Times , it wuh played at the cud of tho first part of the programme , to the evident advantage of tho executants and the audience . The coneorto Mas the first of the two Piano-forte Concertos , that in Gr minor , aiulwas played to such perfection by Mademoiselle ClausH as ( HiiyB the Times ) "to have contented tho most devoted admirer of Mendelnaohn ' H genius . The hIow movement , especially , was given with exquisite fooling , and was loudly ro-donmnded by tlio audience , who listened to tho concerto with uimuHtukftblo intoroBt from first to last , and at tlio conclusion honoured Madoinoisollo CIhiihs with a reoiill . " There *

    was a selection , of vooul . chamber music , nocoinpaniod on Iho pinno-forto by Mr . Bonediot . in masterly stylo . Tho Hoeond iniHoollnnooun ' ] Mrt of tho programme was nmdo Homowhat noticeable by tho fiivst appearance of a now contralto , . Madame Amodie , of whom tho Times wi . yn : — " Of tho liuly ' H [ MotoiiHioiiH ; ih a voo . 'ilisf ; wis would rather < lof <> rH |> oakm £ ; hut of her voioo , it may ho mud , without li < wil , ; d . ion , fJial ,, ninoo Alhoni cainooul . at tho Koyal Italian Opera , a pnror , moro natiHliiotory Jiixl Ixtautiiiil voico of it , H <) la , sH liaH not boon . Iioanl . Jn fcho ' . lirindini , ' from Lacrt : ~ i ( t . Jionjid , , which ( iiijudioiouHly , wu thought ) Wtin introducod later in the ovonin ^ f , thin opinion wan further Hlireii ^ i . hened . With HiKih a treamiro at eonnnand , vvln > n «> fault will it , l > o if Madiune AintMlie , ovidontl y youn / jf , < lo «! H not , hoeonio a h \ i \^ v » She product id n , marked improHHion . "

    On tho wholo . it was an <\\ o < illoiit concort . It in the moro to bo ro-^ rottod that th < i uudionoo hIiohIiI have \ h cu inevitably thin . Even thoao who \ v ( M % o pniHont appeared rather to have taken refuse from tho . fog 1 wfthoul , than to bo < lniwn to ^^ l her by the ; eonoord of mwociI , hoiukIh within tho Hall . Huch . a , jd'o ^ rammo ( Uvservo . s repel ilion : and if tlm Directors would hut jj ; ivo m ono chance more of hoarin ^ . IVI iulomoisollo ( IIiiuhh , before Hh < M ! XohiMi / . feH IjoihIoii I ' o ^ h for Iv ' iiMHinn . snown , we hIuiII ho read y to oorti /' y , that they have *' detwrved well of their country . "

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    November 26 , 1853 ] THE LEADER . 1149

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 26, 1853, page 1149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2014/page/21/