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Wharfedale , assisting his father in his business as a manufacturer of paper , and in that ¦ situation he evinced no mean aptitude for the successful pursuits of trade But ' literature' was his true vocation , ana when he found that the indulgence of his enttmsiarn for it was incompatible with the business of a manufacturlr , he showed the force of character which he had inherited from Ms ^ ther , by dehberatelr exchanging the comforts of home and a settled position in hi , the society of dear friends and the prospect of affluence , for the humble and precarious fortunes of a clergymen without serviceable connexions or showy accomp lishments . In 1809 . when he quitted _ h £ father ' s roof , in his twentieth year , he _ knew lttle Of these well
£ atin and no Greek . languages , , as as of Hebrew and technical divinity , he acquired such a masterv in four years by his own unaided efforts , amidst the drudgery of an . ushership in a school , that at his ordination in 1813 he displayed an amount of knowledge that was declared by the examining chaplain to have surpassed everything that in ins official capacity , had previously come under his notice During the next twenty-five years , of Mr . Garnett ' s life he held in succession many curacies and minor preferments residing sometimes in rural parishes sometimes in busy manufacturing towns , and varying bis field of observation accordingly . In 1825 he made his first appearance as a writer , in a series of articles on the Hamiltoilian system of tuition , which he criticised with caustic severity ; and in the following
year , when ' ^ the Catholic question , " was the question of the day , he distinguished himself in the literary branch of the controversy then pending , by exposing , as Southey said , " the abominable falsifications , of such men , as Milner and Lingard , whom lie had industry enough ito ferret out , throughout all their underhand ways . " In engaging in this work , he was actuated by no feelings of religious bigotry , or of hostility to the civil rights of the Roman Catholics , but by his honest indignation at the disingenuousness of many of their polemical writers , and their mendacity with regard to biography and historical facts . In February 1838 , Mr . Garnett was appointed Assistant Keeper of the Department of Printed Books , in the British Museum , and he held the office until his death in September , 1850 . It was during the last fifteen years of his life that the contents of the present volume were published , some of them in the Quarterly Review , and the rest in the Proceedings of
the Philological Society . Mr . Garnett ' s library is said literally to have contained examples of every printed language , and none of them were there merely for show . The mention of his linguistic attainments naturally suggests a comparison wifh Cardinal Mezzofanti , who may have surpassed him in the conversational use of a multitude of tongues , for we have no record of Mr . Garnett ' s powers in this way , and the Cardinal , we know ,
was a man Who to prattJo was able , All the languiig-CB spoke at the building of IJabcl ; but in all other respects , how immeasurably superior was the English linguist ! . The Cai'dinal was a gifted idiot ; an intellectual monster , with a memory for vocabularies and verbal forms prodigiously developed at the expense of every other mental faculty , His rare gift was an object of barren wonder , a thing as purely personal and incommunicable , and Jas profitless to tho world , as the calculating powers of dozens of inspired arithmeticians who have passed away , without adding one jot to . the stock of numerical science . Tho Cardinal ' s acquisitions
porished with him ; Mr . Garnett made his tho nionns of permanently enlarging tho boundaries of human knowledge , and introducing light and order into some of its most chaotic departments . What a paragon of lexicography would have been an English dictionary , compiled by Mr . Garnett ! It is much to bo regretted that he did not embody that ideal of such a work , of which ho has given some invaluable hints in one of his papers , in tho Quarterly . It was his opinion , expressod in the language of an Irish friend , " that the only good English dictionary we possess is Dr . Jamieson ' s Scottish ono , " Ho thought that , " on tho whole , Dr . Webster ' s quartos
were hardly worthy boing reprinted in England . " Uf Richardson ' s work ho judged moro favourably , not that ho considered it perfect , either in point of ' . plun , or execution , but ho hoped it was "likely to become tho foundation of a bottor dictionary than wo havo hitherto iiossossod . " Will it bo our good fortune to receive such a work from tho hands of tho Doan of Westminster and his learned coadjutors ? That will depend much on , the use thoy miilco of tho volume before us , both as to principles and dotails . To instance only tho latler- —tlio Doan iajtoo prone to boliavo in Tooko ' s ingenious etymological guossos \ ono whioh ho confidently reproduces in his "Study of Words , " hero follows with Garnott ' s correction :
" ' On » . Owed , wanted to make up another pair . ' ' Out , Outs , from Anglo-Saxon , orattan , doturpuio , La ., made vile or worthless " - — Tooho . Just us much aa Cinderella ' s eochtniled mluo wore Identical with tho coot lion murl of Suinlramls , Odd does
not signify deficiency , but surplus ; ort has ^ npt the least connexion with orettan ; and both are , in fact , different forms of the same word . In Icelandic , odde is a p < ynt , cuspis ; Danish , odd the same ; Swedish , udd , a point ; tiso odd , in the English sense . In German , the primary meaning of ort , is also point . To establish a connexion between the two we must have recourse to the Bavarian dialect . In this , ort not only denotes point , but also beqiiining , the end of a thread or skein—anil , what is most to our purpose , ort oder cbert is exactly our odd or even . In odd , the idea is that of unity , a single point , hence one over ; orts are waste or superfluous ends , leavinns * The latter is the German form , the former the Scandinavian , in which ' the r is assimilated to the following consonant by a-very common process m Icelandic—e . g ., broddr ; a sting ; Anglo-Saxon , hrord ; rodd . voice , Anglo-Saxon , record .
JRuth ; a Chapter in Providence . By the Rev . John Cumming , D . D ., F . R . S . E . Hall , Virtue and Co . A thorough analysis and application of the beauful Hebrew pastoral so called . There is much skill in interpreting the living symbols , enlarging the suggestions , and tracing the vestiges of ancient truth displayed in the successive chapters into winch the subject is divided . Of course , the eloquence is undoubted . The subject is divided into eleven heads , and some of them are developed with great beauty and power . The theological idea , too , of the Goel , contained in the story , is very clearly explained . But the crown of the book is the last chapter , in which Woman is the argument—" her glory and greatness . " Dr . ¦ of the
Cumming does not maintain the equality sexes , but holds that each is greatest in its particular way . To woman lie assigns the Heart—to man the Head . " Man , " he tells us , and truly , " reasons out a conclusion , but a woman instinctively seizes it . I have been , " he adds , " very much struck by this . Before man can settle a question in ethics , even in his own conduct , he has to argue ; hence the long speeches in the House of Commons , tremendously long , reaching conclusions not always what they should be . Now , a woman does not reason nor argiie ; she knows nothing about logic ; but by an instinct , the most subtle , the most delicate , and always right , she sees what is duty , and decides without a moment ' s hesitancy or a doubt . " Coleridge makes a similar remark in " The Friend . "
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries ; and Assurance Magazine . 2 STo . 35 . C . and E . J , ayton . This excellent magazine is steadily pursuing its course , and must have obtained considerable authority in the assurance world . The valuable papers read before the Institute of Actuaries arc reprinted in these pages , and the present number opens with Mr . E . J . Farren's " Essay on the Improvement of Life Contingency Calculation , " and a second part on the " System of Dependent liisks . " It is not for
us to pronounce on the value of the methods proposed , but it must be of advantage to students to examine them . All the articles arc of a scientific nature , but the one of most general interest is that on the " Decimal Systom of Measures and Coins , " by Mr . Samuel Brown , which was read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science , at Liverpool . The " Correspondence " is not the least valuable portion of the contributions , and always contains many communications on special subjects .
The Servants' Behaviour Booh ; or , Hints on Manners and Dress for Maid Servants in Small Households , By Mrs . Motherly . Bell and Duldy . Tins is a most . useful manual for servants ; by tho observance of those plain directions they can render their places comfortable to themselves , and their employers comfortablo with them . Many of the directions may bo superseded , probably by the eenso of propriety which every well-regulated servant instinctively possesses ; but still "it is well to have them so set down , that the principle of action may bo reflected on , and its application consciously referred to tho actual business of tho moment . Servants hereby may be taught , to think rationally of their duty , as well as diligently to perform it . Poerio and tho Neapolitan Prisoners Transported ; ( i Drama in Time Acts , zvith Prologue . By A . G **** . P . Roland i .
Tjibwq is considerable eloveniess in the manner in which tho dialogues are manageU ; and tho infamous conduct of tho Neapolitan Government ifl exposed . Wo trust that the dramatic form will not prevent this political brochure from boing extensively read . SibarCa Wold , or Cross Purposes . A talo ; by tho author of "A Trap to Catch a Sunboani . " Tins pretty story of modern Ufa has deservedly got into u second edition .
Brother Prince ' s Journal ; or an Account of the De ~ struction of the Works of the Devil in me Human Soul , by the Lord Jesus Christ , through the CfospeL Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . Brother Prince , of the Agapemorie needs no introduction ; he has made himself sufficiently notorious as the founder of a sect of religious eccentrics . We gather from this volume that he is a man who has been subject to ill-health ; who , consequently little disposed to the ordinary rough usage of the world , has cultivated a select society of his own ; who , whenever he visits the larger society beyond its bounds , is shocked with the coarse language and manners that prevail ; and , when he returns within his-own self-constituted narrow limits , cultivates his subjective moods until they attain to a complex growth , and then mistakes them for general truths . No wonder that with these habits of thought and
conduct , and with these surroundings , that Brother Prince discovers one of his besetting sins to be a spirit of self-righteousness . If we understand the diary rightly , it describes a course by which the journalist was delivered from this same spirit ; but , for our parts , we recognise no such deliverance : indeed , we find him more confirmed in the self-righteous conviction at the end than at the beginning of the record . He claims to have arrived at a certain Hindoo state , as it were , in which his own life has been absorbed into that of the Divinity . This is an Oriental luxury of religious sentiment which few . in our rugged clime can afford . Brother Prince has enjoyed too much good fortune , too much leisure , and has not known how to turn it to that account by which it
gives birth to wisdom . Much need of hard work has been his;—the necessity of living on sixpence a-day , and earning it . Under such a condition of . things his mind might have grown robust and strong ; and we should never have heard of these dreams , which are the product of an idle mind , that had to make its own occupation , and thus constructs a sort of poetical world , ¦ with which i being his own , he may do what he pleases . We may safely leave Brother Prince to the Fool ' s Paradise of his own creation . Resident in this , lie may still continue to cure himself of toothache , and the other ills that flesh is heir to , by the force of what he deems his faith . We shall doubt , however , whether external nature be subject to his prayers . In his judgment it is . Here is his witness : — "April 12 th .
" 23 y the help of God I have overcome the east wind . For three or four weeks a strong east wind has . been blowing-, and as this wind exerts quite a pestilential influence . my body , and has so often been the means of bringing ihe very low , when it began this time my flesh trembled . God , however , gave me faith to believe it should not injure me ; nor did it , though I have been exposed to it daily . Yesterday , however , my faith failed , and the wind being strong and the sun very hot , I expected , to belaid up ; when , lo ! the wind shifted to the north ! I have no doubt that Qoil gaye me . special faith for the occasion ; and , when the faith was no longer needed , He took it from me . Neither do I doubt that I ,-through faith , subdued the cast wind to the glory , of God . " contained in the
This example of the fanaticism book will be sufficient to instruct the reader as to the quality of its contents and general style . Edinburgh Veterinary Review . No . IV . A great variety of practical information is accumulated—more , indeed , than we could indicate without gqing to great length ; and some of it so minute that it would bo impossible to transfer it to our pages . Herein , however , lies the special value of a work like this , which is decidedly , of great " professional utility . A Journey due North , being Notes of a Residence in Russia in the Summer of 185 G . By George Augustus Sala . Second edition . London : 11 . Bout ley . This capital book of travels has rapidly reached a second edition , which no ono can be surprised at who has read tho vivid descriptions which characterise tliis gifted author ' s stylo .
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IRISH ELECTION N 10 WS . A third candidate is in tlip fiol . tl for tho rc ; prosontation of Wicici . ow County in tho person of Mr . ix . Cuninghame , a supporter of tho Derby Government , against Lord Proby , tlio prosent moderate AaDorai . Mr . JIumo is put down us safe . rsi ^ ,... i Strenuous efforts are being inailo ^ ' <> ^" a party in BifiLtfAttr to recover tliolr lost ground , and to recover ono , at least , of tho seats . llwy have east their eyes on Mr . Kirk , the sitting member lor Wry ! as a candidate likely to win tho good graces ° Mr j ! , h n ° Fmncis Magulro , the rlngloulor of that section of tho Irish independent Opposition winch gave aooidlal and hourly vote in favour of the Derby Government on tlio lato momomblo occasion , solicits a renewal of tlio oonlldonoo of tho 13 unoauvan Ol jfl ! oro nro now throo aspirants for the representation of tho email borough of Kinbajlm , vaofttod bj
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? Mv"hon niimbqi ' H aro oonnldoml iih odd or oven they H 0 om to bo ouiifildurt'diiH pliuu . 'd In two rows i and ll ' thot-ndw of tho rowM tiro uvuii with uiich othui \ \ vu nail tliu number ovum If ono row projyotn beyond liio ollmr , II , In an odd number j mid Uui Juuliuiduru havuyiUlla , U ) iti'nJoot , from \ uUl . I don't think you ullndud to tlio i .-xim-uhhIou , od < l » nnd vm \» , whluh la a uomuurn ouo . '—LuUar from 11 , iPvdi / toooti , Jhntj ., to thv author .
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No . 473 , a ~~ ' i * is * o . 1 THE LEADKB . 495
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2290/page/15/
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