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    ODD JOL'KXICYS."

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    83 i The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Sept . 29 , 1860

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    It is a remarkable fact that diseases of the heart are naturally confined to the human race ; though in . domestic animals exposed to moderate inuseular exertions , such as the horse , tlic heart if « frequently found ' -diseased . ' In wild -animal's diseases of the vascular system have seldom or never boon observed . In -mankind , the hearts action is so frequently -interrupted by their habits and passions , that from the influences of the blood on every organ , the heart becomes the seat of many diseases , and the exciting * cause of disturbances in their organs . The various irregularities and unequal distribution of the blood , which inevitably result from these changes , \ iltimately create derangement of structure as well a : s disturb the function of those organs whose circulation has been disordered .. Diseases of the heart are more frequent than is usually

    supposed . . It is another curious fact that the size of the heart varies in different persons , as also at different periods of life . Kieherand wiys . tltnt according to the size of the lieart , it is supposed a man is strong or weak , and lias more ' -or less moral courage . Ihe heart is inoi'e-powerful in courageous animals- than in the feeble and in the timid . Hence , he remarks , the common expression of a person having the : heart to make any great ¦ etlbrt , The heart , though the source of ¦ sensibility is itself next to insensible , even in disease ; Even when the heart is . seriously disturbed , tlu ? ve is little or no local pain , the uneasiness in breathing- and the other 1

    symptoms arisingfrom ' changes in the distribution of the blood , [ t . must , however . be considered a central nervous orgran . which may -be-. 'illustrated in-the nervous system of animals , the structure of which goes far to prove the position . In many , . for instance , of ¦ the invert eb ' rata . nervous centres , consisting of detached ganglia , or connected by nerve fibres , are placed in different parts of their body , each of the ganglia supplying- a particular part , which part can act separately , or in conjunction with others . Each organ is independent of the brain , and can live , after it has been separated from it ; but whilst the body of the animal remains entire , all the organs perform their functions conjointly .

    Irregularities in sleep and waking are symptoms of henrt disease . Irvsonni-oleuee is one of the most distressing 1 symptoms which of ' ten accompany a disordered heai't . The quantity of sleep required is . however , ¦ different ' 'in different individuals , . Men generally spend one-third of their time in sleep : exceptions-are nevertheless-frequent . The celebrated John Hunter only ' slept five hours . A man . not named , is said ¦' never to have slept , and yet he enjoyed good health , living till his seventy-third year ; he had a kind of dozing for about . ' a quarter . of an hour once a day , which was all the rest he was ever known to take . Napoleon found a single hour of sleep sufficient to restore . ' him niter twenty-four hours' fatigue : he could also fall asleep at will . Somnambulism is , also , an effect of a disordered heart , it is a condition of the oerebro-spinal system in which some onlv of the orsra-ns of that svstern are awake .

    The Chinese pay great attention to the heart ' s pulse , and Dr . Wardrop is . strongly convinced that the habit of examining the arterial pulse , in place of the beats of the heart , has been a . fruitful source of error in the practice of medicine . The arterial pulse is . indeed , felt only for information on the state of the central organ of circulation . Some common expressions in reference to the state of the heart are pathologically correct , such are " a full heart . " "' a heart ready to burst . " The heart is in a state of congestion when an increase in its cavities has taken place , beyond a certain limit , and when they have no longer the power to empty themselves sutricientlv .

    Those who are fond of the pleasant exorcise of dancing will be glad to learn that its exhilarating effect a are good for the heart . Indeed nil kinds of bodily exercise are beneficial . Walking invigorates the mind after fatigue ; driving in a carriage bus an exciting influence . A gallop across the -boundless desert is perfect Iv intoxicating—it produces u sensation approaching to rapture . ' which is inconceivable . Muscular movements on the orator are alike most influential . "His gestures keep pace with his mental excitement , and his gesticulation * become move oxtvuvngant in proportion as he becomes impassioned ; the heart thus acquiring an increase in the quantity of its blood , and consequently the brain receiving a proportionately increased supply of the vital thud . " Thus it is that nuir-vles , by their ' contractions ' . iuen . u > e the quantity of nrtorial blood in the heart : and our author is ¦ sumi-i ^ od that

    physiologists , when endeavouring to account for the benoricial influence of various exorcises , though they wciv nwave that Mich exercises iiuToased the return of the von ' ous blood to the central organ of the circulation , should not have advanced a sup further , and considered what must bo the etleot of the contract Ions of muscles on those nrt «? ries which are adjacent to thoin . On the pathology of the heart there is no work capable- of competition with the present . It is complete in all its part * , well arranged , mul written in so lucid a stylo , that the unprofcssivm . il may readily understand the full relations of the argument . On this account , it' on no other , tho book would bo a valuable gin to the publics hut . combined with tho numerous excellencies that it po :--ses-ses , it cannot be priced too highly , ami ought to bo found on tlso * helf of t'votv adequate librnw .

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    4 WOKlv undor tho above titlo . by Mr . Ilohi ! i-r-nca . ,. - ' ¦•; XjL vailed , and very successfully , cimparativu ' ly now giV'UiSk . \' - is composed of a select ion of nrtieks c . mtril . nite . l to Mr . l ) : ^ : i- ¦; pori'xlioal . taking tln ^ o only which dealt with u particular > ... i s * ' •' subjects , such as travelling in o < kl place : * , or underb id c : iv ; . - - Ntanco . —mv . l c ; . nbodied theiiutlur ' s own ii . > rsnnal oxivriouiv . _ > •; lyoWil the look witli tho oxpoct-. ition of l » oiiiyr I 1 > tliin :-mu-t ,. : iv . 't aunis < nl-. n ' nr hnvo' wo'bocn uJMippointod . Mr . ll > lii ' . i « >' 'O . ul . * ¦¦ '•• ¦ of those writers , produced by the oxigouoo < -f tho ( > -r i-. " . Uc : tl I 11 "" * wlio is most aj . t in reporting scUntitlo an-. l >*> vi : ' . l piv-rro- , ¦ •';• IK'nulari .-inir scientific ui' -.-ovc ' ry , thus making app-.-. u * ca ^ ' . " ' - ¦ ¦ ' reader what lu * i \ . i !! y boon dirneult to the U-. v-hor . >>'•> i- ' -- !' " iluovs thi * kind of imiole in better style , and wo c . r . iu- ¦ : lu . ^ ugni-dhig Mr . H dlitifcrskead in the light of a public Ivnefuet . ;•

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    " i' It J .-urn ty * n ii , ' .-: f / l . nd . I , Uy J iin IM : iu » h .. i . t . Or . vtn ' : •»• . 11 . 1 t . :. » .

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    contrarieties , yet through the mere force of the earnestness of the writer , and the evident goodwill with which he or she has entered upon their undertaking , together with a natural flow of language , and a certain dramatic power in the arrangement of the materials of the story , succeed in gradually exciting the interest of the reader-in behalf of the several individuals which compose the drama . There is also an indescribable charm in the freshness and impulsiveness of feeling which particularly characterise the works of young writers ; and though we may discover here and there certain -incongruities and shortcomings " which betray the inexperienced hand , yet the mind naturally skims lightly over these weaker poi'tions , and dwells with : ill the greater zest and enjoyment upon the parts in which arc depicted i . ll the vivacity and spontaneity of a young ^ enthusiastic artist . ' Over the Clifts , " bv Chavloite Chanter , is . a fair specimen

    of the kind of novel we have described . The authoress possesses considerable talent , and it is not difficult to perceive that her heart is thoroughly in her work : there are , however , certain errors and inconsistencies in her story , and the manner in which it is developed , which , with further experience in her art , she will not be so liable to fall into . For instance , the character of the elder JDa / c-ioii is not only somewhat exaggerated , but is besides scarcely kept up and sustained with sufficient power and ingenuity . This man . who has early engendered habits of intemperance , which -render him subject to violent paroxysms of passion , to one of which his wife had formerly fallen a victim , though the deed had at the time been hushed up , and the murderer allowed to escape the fangs of . justice , cherishes within his breast an intense hatred , of his only daughter Gntceov GnrHaun , whom lie subjects , not onlv -morally but physically , to treatment-at

    once cowardly , brutal , and inhuman . Thus in aii early part of the first volume we find this monster of iniquity striking the unlucky object of his spleen , then a child ton years of age .-mercilessly s ' , < .-r-. » :. the . head and : shoulders with a heavy hunting whip , v . iifully lacerating and disfiguring , undeterred hy any conscientious scruples ' , * " the' offspring of his own . flesh and blood . Again when the young lady " has attained the age of ¦ sixteen , we find her , for some comparatively slight offence , suddenly strr . ck to the ground-by a blow on the temple , administered by the hand of her infuriated parent , who , thereupon , without summoning any assist ance . turns the key upon the unhappy girl , leaving her to lie in a state of insensibilitv till the ensuing morning . Such a ' . character

    necessarily requires to be strongly delineated ; Either it shoaucl bo something or nothing : either it should bo worked out deliberately , without reluctance or hesitation , or it should be dispensed with altogether . -l / Y .- ' -v C / ninfer seems to have been alarmed at the monstrosity of her own conception ; and consequently at . different portions of her narrative , when , the brutalities of the above-named individual are about to become particularly glaring , she suddenly draws in . with a kind of half apology , implied rather than expressed , a * though she were fearful of offending too far against the natural feelings " and prejudices of her readers . Ultimately . Mr . Dav . "son . supposing himself to have been the immediate cause of his daughter s death , fall ' s into a state of idiocy , and , of course ; dies miserably . Miss Chanter is . however , more successful in some of her other

    characters ; that of the heroine Grace herself , with her bitter sorsows , against which she bears lip heroically , with true Sjmrtan fortitude of soul , her wild energy of disposition , her goncr ' . ms impulsiveness of heart ; . —inheriting some of her father ' s- violence ' > t temper , but softened and toned down by a true womanly inMim-t and a deep solicitude for the feelings and happiness of others ' : _ over seroi-ning her father , and jealously confining the secret of her wrongs to her own breast , when a word spoke in public would have drawii around her a host of sympathising friends , and porhap- protectors—were not unworthy the pen of many a more celebrated and gonenilly-aeeopted novelist . The character of Lily K ^ wk-r i- < a !>" ably and artistically drawn , and her history forms a melancholy but interest ing episode in the book . Art-print oi' ImhJ anJ Sm Tales , by the " Old _ Sailor . " k-U .-r known i \ f > the author of the " Warlock . " " Tough Vann . " Ac hajust « i > poarod in Itoutledgo ' s cheap edition of novel-. The tuk- in this volume , which comprise " The Fanner ' s Daughter . " " 1 Drink tho He . id- * . " " llo-lvoir Castle , " "The ( Jrcat H-.-U . " and " 'Lh > . ' Painter of Port . " in * e all written and constructi .-. l with euiisj ' . k !' . ! ' e p .. > wer und ingen \ iity . Tho livst on 111 i » H- t . "The I * avi . ; . : ¦ < PaujrUt or . " mude up iw it is of all kin-. l- * «> f ^ tiirtlingin .-ilcn .-. -u h as > t ^ luetion . rolihory . murder . \< -.. \\ i \< ahv . idy iV-umsI . ar ,. l v , . il doubtlos still continue to find . h <» t * ot a < ln » ircrs aui-n ^_ it Lr-iv circle of readers , whoso tastes lie in a somewhat incl ' . »< . lnni ) ati ..- d \\\< :-tton .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1860, page 832, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2367/page/8/