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      - , And £ his is his ideal , which attain'd He will not top j , this is the possible Of his capacity , perhaps a fact - ' At which ambitious strngglera will rebel , But hone less true for that , let him sit down > . / An ^ sw ^ f Jlow it jn . silcnce . ' r—Witness all , That this is said of women every day . .. ] Qiyerse-in nature , with unsparing creed . Tfiesy liftlfthers , unseeing where it tends . — ~ . ; ; GfraIe with iron bands the sapling tree , ; -. '¦/ . ' It shoots into deformity , but He Who first its feeble breath of life inspired . Ordain'd its growth by an interior law ; . To faU ' tf ^ elojinient , of loveliness , Whereof the p lanter wots not till he leaves It to ^ the loudly care of elements - And the firee reasons ' cliange of storm and shine . ~ . Not ^ or a moment would I underrate ¦ Tiiat sweet ideal whichi has cbarm'dthe world , ' l ' - : For « geW anjl will never cease to charm . : ' : E ^^ fchVc ^ Women arnOiig the charities of home . * . . W < lk noiseless , unde ^ led ; ah I who wonld widh '•• ' . ' ^ iumficpni tbis green fertilising course . """¦¦ ' " '¦"' ' Su ^ b ^ k ^ promSe ! leteaeh amplify ? ' ¦ - ¦ ' ¦' ¦ -. > In its owii proper measure fer and wide , . ¦ - ' ,- . * ¦( ' Accordittigto-its boahty ; sacred be The radiant tresses of such ministers .

      ' . ¦ ;< ¦; > ^ A ^ l ^ u ^ [ ' A ^ nd with my pen , and . with mine uttermost , - . f ^ . § fe ^ ofalI , anaeyefthiC ^ 2 ~ i " ¦ ' ¦ •' ¦ " : 3 ^ i » t 6 ve «( M ^ lilTe ' TO h ^^ p ' .. . _ ¦ ' - > : ,.. i ; , . 'Jftjstfc&isiblossoitndfstymtaneoniigrowth , Must spring from aptitode and natural use : r >• .- : nftPHWli ^ Wy . *^*^ ^^^ ^ V g ^^ d ftt , lest it decay , ; . , TJTnderihe ] gre ^ ure to ; a loathsome thing ,. /•>; ' ¦' ,. ¦> 3 %$ uij |^ gF : idleness and ^ ensnous mmd ,, '¦ A ¦• . '" - '¦ ¦' ¦ . ¦ . \ A ^ fe ^^ aflfee ^ i Weep . " tf this be all , V ¦ - >•' .. Speak , ffibn , true heart , put fcom the ( hungry sea . '• ¦ ' 'I 7 ¦¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ : . y ^^^^^ - * b « e dowajjasjt in thy fnritofUfe , ; / ?> ¦ - .: < i § P ^ feS ^?!* s 4 i -Wpther ,. fom that uxuww&d mave ; v , ; :. ' Which fipose . soVainly seek . Who lovei thee well , Vv > ¦ ' >¦ ¦ : -, ¦ : i ' < ^^^ s ^ ifeST ,.-Marigaret , from thy seal in . heaven , •¦ J : ' ¦ ' - ; \^^ ? F * ^ 9 ^ W ^ no wledca larger , bntin love "*'* - " - •¦ " Scarce more perfected , dost those days recall ... . Spent jn strong aspiration and pursuit r . e : ii iv * ,- u-: Qf aimideals , hoW revetfoiii fails - With shape snstain'd and meanings more divine . Ah , conld I give thy dear and honour'd name Some little tribute , ; who ; wertrbrave andijbold , . . And . feititu 3 ,, as are . few t , 'Tis a small jfching , An easy'tfiing , to write such witty words As Lowell wrote to thee : 'tis a hard tiling , A royal ihing , to live so kind a life , — Dying , to leave so dear a memory , . And such a want where thou wast wont to be .

      To- Anna Blackwell we have special praise to award for the careful finish of her poems .- , Although pot an original writer , she has the serious feeling of an artist for her art ; indeed , the literary excellence of her volume bo far exceeds the poetic that we urge her to < juit verse * for prose : verse like porcelain bemg almoBt worthless if if ; is _ no | perfect . Miss Parkes , on the other hand , is carelecu » ndimpaj ^ ent , and needs , to be impressed with a more religiouB feeling for her art-rrif ehe persist in cultivating it at all . The world has too much Jap ^ poe ^ cy ^ to care for the inferior works even of great poets ; the least each new aspirant can do is to give the world la crSme de la creme

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      REFUTATION OF SPINOZA BY LEIBNITZ . Refutation InddUe de Spinozapar Leibnitz . Prdcddee d > un Memoire . Par A . Foncher de : CareiL London : D . 'Nutt . The newly-discovered treatise written in Leibnitz's own hand , of which we spoke recently , has been published in Paris , and a copy 6 f it sent us by Mr . Nutt of Fleet-street , thus enabling us to early fulfil our promise of informing the reader , as to its authenticity and value . ° Of its authenticity there can be no doubt . The MS . still exists in the public library at Hanover , and M . Careil gives precise indications of its history and the cause of its neglect : it has been tied up in a bundle of papers bearing the name ofWachter , thus : Animadversiones ad Joh . Georg . Wach-Uri libriun de recondita Hebrceorum philosophia , which , on inspection , turns but tobe the MSf of Leibnitz , and which contains what the admiring editor proclaims a complete refutation of Spinoza . But there are words which

      Ex iiihilo aliquid fieri ad jfetiones refert Spinoza . Sed revere modi quifiunt ex nihilo fiunt . Cum wdla sit modorum materia certe nee modus nee ejus part preeexistitit sed alius qui evanuit et cui hie successit . That , as we said , is a really good metaphysical argument . It is , never * theless , a mere play on words ; as may be seen in this parallel passage " Existence , has various forms ; yet we cannot say that Existence includes all that exists , because forms exist , and there is no Parenttfonp , from whicfc all forms proceed , consequently forms do not come under th « category of Existence . ' With sueh logomachies will men amuse themselves , and waste the precious faculties which if directed towards science would enrich man ^ kind I However , as there are Metanhvaioians . ami sunnncr nnr ronrioiHi ««?

      only Metaphysicians but some curious—historically—in Metaphysics , we may commend this volume to them . It contains the Bough notes—marginalia , as it were—of Leibnitz on Spinoza ( and not a regular Treatise , as the title would imply ) , a translation , and an introductory | femoir by the editor of no great merit , but which settles the vexed question as to the obligations of Leibnitz to Spinoza .

      seem only used to be abused—" refutation" is one of them . And this at tempt to refute Spinoza—although proceeding from one of the giants in metaphysics—turns out on inspection to be the stringing together of certain assertions which are opposed to the propositions cited . Thus , when Spinoza says that God is necessarily a cause , and the cause of all things , Leibnitz quietly says , * ' it is false . God exists necessarily , but he creates freely . God has created the forces of things , but these forces are distinct from the divine force . Things act by themselves , although they have received the force by which they act . ' Here is another sample of refutation—and very tolerable refutation , too , for metaphysics , which mainly consists of plays on words : "Spinoza is wrong in saying that the world is the effect of the divine nature , although he does give us to understand that it is not the effect of chance . There is a middle term between that which is necessary and that which is fortuitous : viz ., that which ia free . " Risum teneatis amid f

      Can you gravely contemplate great intellects paying themselves with words in this way ? Throughout the whole of this refutation we only met with one phrase which seemed to us worthy of attention on the part of the S p inozist , and that is really a good metaphysical argument . It is where Leibnitz objects to Spinoza , that if the axiojai ex nihilo nihil fit is to be admitted ( he rejects it ) then how can the Modes of Substance come into existence , since there is no Substance of Modes—no prc-existent Mode out of which all that exist are produced ? We give in hia own words the passage , just paraphrased

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      THE DUCHESS ELEANOUR . Iif noticing the failure of The Lovelock the other day I said that il arose from no onae . £ pecial defect in the story so mucli as from tbe radical irremediable defect in the author—the total absence of the dramatic sense , power , instinct , art—call it what you will—which makes a man a dramatist . The production , on Monday last , at the Haymakkjet , of a new play , in five acts , by the author of the Lovelock , confirmed this judgment ; for , althou g h it escaped the summary verdict which damned , as we expressively say , the OiiTMPic piece , and although the applauders so far predominated over the hissers that the p iece was announced for repetition on Wednesday and Friday , yet there is no disguising the fact that it was a failure , and a failure from the same radical defect as the one I noted in th « Lovelock . Mr

      Chorley has now had three five acts plays performed : —Old Love and New Fortune at the Scbket , the Lovelock at tbe Olympic , and the Ducliess Eleanour at the Haymarkbt—three failures of a clever man obstinately trying f for success in a department where success is for him , I believe , impossible . Dramatist , in the high sense of the word , he is not , for he has no power of conceiving and representing character , no power of clearl y conducting a story through incidents . Dramatist , in the lower and theatrical sense , he is not , for he has not acnuired , even by failure , the rudiments of stacre art . The two

      plays of his , which I have seen , showed undeniable talent—but were never dramatic . The stories were incomprehensible , the motives elaborately concealed , the characters no characters at all , and the incidents so loosely strung together as only to irritate not satisfy curiosity . In this Duchess Eleanour there is more direct action , and a story more comprehensible than tho Lovelochy hence its greater success ; but if you attempt to tell the story you are forced—like the critic in the Times—to confess an inability to say " what it is all about . " There was an idea in the author ' s mind , hovrever ; let me add , a good idea , and one which , had ho possessed any dramatic

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 18, 1854, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2030/page/20/