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»»*« THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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The Daily News, while heartily approving...
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Those who are curious to know where Mada...
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It is unnecessary for us to call attenti...
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The appearance of Punctis Pocket-hoolc, ...
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aspects of Catholicism throughout the worfd ^ aiad paints oat -as a curious fact , that everywhere Catholicism is now settling into complete ulfcra . - montanism—all modified forms of Catbolic belief giving way before this its most pronounced type . He says " . — Catholicism lias gained strength since the first French Eevolution . The French clergy , as a body , thoroughly interpenetrated with the fear of any assertion of freedom , are no longer the defenders of the liberties of the Gallican Chiarch against the encroachments of the Holy See . To be a Catholic is now to be wholly submissive to the Pope . One mind actuates , in this respect , the whole clerical establishment . And it is true of the Romish Charch all over the world , that it encounters less resistance than ever before , -whether secret , among the clergy , or open , among professedly Catholic rulers . It is a strict unity in the United States and ia England , in the South American and Mexican States . Austria has become thoroughly submissive , and Spain has recently , by a concordat , re-established perfect freedom of concurrent action between the episcopate and the Pope- All opposition to a centralising influence seems completely overcome at present .
In the same Re-view there is alight and somewhat dashing paper on Young , the poet , in which Mr . Gilfillan , Young ' s latest editor , is severely handled . There is also a pr & pos of Young and Mr . Gilfillan , a foot-note attack on Mr . Stany . an Bigg , Mx . Alexander Smith , Mr . Bailey , and the "Firmilian" group of poets . Blackwood is decidedly heavy this month , despite another brisk article on the " Census" and its revelations . The political article accuses Ministers of pusillanimity in the early conduct of the war ; advocates decided dealing with Prussia ; predicts tremendous trials of our natural prowess yet coming ; threatens woe to ' * the minister , who from credulity or previous leanings , or absolute inherent weakness and incapacity , fails at such a time ; " and demands a meeting of Parliament "immediately . "
Fraser is mor « lively and varied than JBlackwood . There is a political article , of a plain and not very deep kind , on " Russian defeats and their effect on Europe , " at the close of which the writer takes civilian critics of the war to task for their strictures on Lord Raglan and his . military associates , and maintains that Lord Raglan is a man to be thoroughly trusted . There is also an onslaught on poor Lieutenant Royer , for his book on Russia ; there is a biographic sketch of the chemist Dalton ; there is another curious paper on " Italian Patois Books ; " and there is an interesting account of a visit to Messrs . Truman and Hanbury ' s "brewery , under the title of " London Stout , " containing a good many facts respecting the brewing business . Among other facts , the writer states that this firm saves 2000 / . a year , by having adopted an apparatus for consuming their own smote .
The way this is accomplished is very simple . An endless-jointed and rather open blanket-chain , the-width of the furnace , is made to revolve over two rollers placed at either end of the fire . This chain consequently forms the base or platform upon which the coal rests . One end of this revolving platform extends a couple of feet or so heyond the furnace door , and on this portion a quantity of screened or dust coal is always kept . When a fresh supply of fuel is required , the engineer has only to turn a handle , the chain works on a couple of feet , and whilst the coal is insinuated under the clinkers at one end , the refuse is worked out of the furnace at the other . In order to test the power of this invention to consume the smoke , we were taken up to the roof of the brewery , which commands a view of the fourteen tall chimneys belonging to it . Not
a particle of opaque vapour could be seen emerging from any one of them ; in fact , they looked as idle as the " silly buckets on the deck , " in the Ancient . Mariner . These smokeless shafts , however , were a fine prospect , and as we gazed upon them , the atmosphere in the future , like a dissolving process in the views at . the Polytechnic , became exquisitely clear , the newly-built columns came out sharp against the sky , the clouds of soot from St . Taul ' s dropped down like a black veil , and all the city , in our mind ' s eye , stood before us at midday , as clear , bright , and crisp as Paris appears from the Arc do Triomphe . Sooner or later this vision must be a reality ; the great factories within the limits of the city must consume their own smoke according to law ; and now that Dr . Araott has applied the same apparatus to the domestic hearth , we may reasonably hope to see every grate consume its own smoke .
The Dublin University Magazine contains much good matter , but nothing especially novel requiring notice . Tait , amongst its articles , has one on the " Pension List , " in which it finds fault with some items in the present distribution of the pension-fund , and , in particular , instances De Quincey as a man who ought , by this time , to have had a pension . Bentley , as usual , is very full in the department of light , sketchy narrative The National Miscellany is well-printed ; and that seorna to bo about its chief merit . The month , of course , brings with it a new part of Mr . Knight ' s National Cyclopcedia , and one of the Art Journal .
»»*« The Leader. [Saturday,
»»*« THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The Daily News, While Heartily Approving...
The Daily News , while heartily approving , iu the main , of tho scheme of the " Working-Men ' s College , " objects to the name " College , " as applied to the institution ; objects also to the notion of conferring degrees on tho students , as at the Universities ; and , above all , objects to ^ fche regulation that the students shall wear academic gowns . Wo think our contemporary decidedly wrong in thq greater part of these objections . The very signilicancy of the present project—that which distinguishes it from nil previous institutions for the evening-educution of working man , such as readingrooms , courses of lectures , and the like—is its formally collegiate character .
The notion is really to furnish working meu with the elements of the anmo instruction , with the same forms and accompaniments , as hits hitherto been reserved for the aristocracy . Deprive tho present project of its name — call it a school , a courso of lectures , or a mechanics' institution—and thoro is nothing in it that has not been before . True , it will bo long before tho College cun rival tho Collogca of the rich ia the nature and severity of its studies ; bufc tho aim , ought to bo to nuiko this possible , and to allow that , in all our cities an apparatus may exist which shall bring wlutt is best in a university training within reach of our artisans . Those who laugh , at euch iv project aa chimorioal , who say , " ¦ How can working men be
expected , after a laborious day , to go through a course of college study ?" simply show their ignorance of what is now common among our working men . Already there are many students among working-men , and the design is to organise these natural efforts and lead the thoughtful and persevering among our operatives into higher walks of knowledge and . speculation than random reading and extempore politics can be expected to open up for them . The Parisian operative is , in many cases , a highly educated man ; and had John Knox had his own way in Scotland , thiee centuries ago , he would have set up district-col leges as well as parish-schools , and seeured
that every Scottish blacksmith and shoemaker should have a college-education . There is nothing impracticable in the scheme . Already there are English operatives who read Neivton's Principia , and are deep in the sciences . Their number may be increased ; and the proper way to increase it is not by adopting means for making working-men cease to be -working-men , forego their natural politics , and abandon the sentiments of their class ; but by raising the intellectual standard of the class itself . The politics of a highly educated order of working-men will not be less formidable and anti-aristocratic than the present politics of our working-men , but will be jmided bv
a higher and more commanding logic . By all means , then , let the new college keep up every academic form that has yet a significance in it . With the Daily News , indeed , we do doubt the good s « nse of making the students wear gowns . That custom is falling out of use in our established colleges , and never was general ; and its liability to ridicule in the present case does away the good of any slight significance it may have . Mr . Maurice , in a letter to the Daily News , says , the proposal to wear gowns was strongly opposed in the council of the college itself . It is a pity the opponents were not in the majority .
Those Who Are Curious To Know Where Mada...
Those who are curious to know where Madame Gjeorge Sand got that wonderful prose style of hers which all so much admire , may feel an interest in the fact , that in the recent chapters of her Autobiography in La , Presse , she has published a series of letters written by her father , when a very young mail , in the years 1798 and 1799—which' letters have so much of her own ease and glowing grace of expression in fcuem , that one cannot help feeling that her literary faculty is but the development o £ an hereditary o-ift .
It Is Unnecessary For Us To Call Attenti...
It is unnecessary for us to call attention to the article in last week ' s Athenaeum , which , " putting this and that together , " was to explain the mystery of the obvious puffing of certain journals , particularly the Critic and the Law Times , in a book entitled " Handbook for Advertisers" published b y Mr . Eitingha . m Wilson , but without printer ' s or author ' s name . The article has . already- made a sensation , and done a service to the cause of upright dealing in literature . We would point , however , to something more than an acute and well-timed exposure of an ugly practice—it is a generous vindication by one established journal of the common rights of all journals . At a time when there is too much of that mean policy amon ™ our journals which leads them to ignore each other ' s existence , and studiously to avoid recognising eacb other ' s efforts , it is refreshing to see a powerful journal like the Afhenceum breaking through so paltry a rule , and acting on the principle that there maybe fraternity and mutual respect in the midst of commercial rivalry and intellectual difference .
The Appearance Of Punctis Pocket-Hoolc, ...
The appearance of Punctis Pocket-hoolc , the Comic Zadhiel , and other merry publications of the kind , forewarns us that the time of Christmas and the Almanacs is approaching . As yet there u no greut promise of Christmas books , Mr . Thackeray ' s being the only one regarding- which there is any expectation . Messrs . Parker and Son announce a Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics , to be edited by Mr . J . J . Sylvgst . eii and other men of high mote in mathematical research ; the first number to appear on the 31 st of March , 1855 . The same publishers announce twovolumes of Essays to appear early in 1855—the one to be entitled Oxford Essays , and to consist of literary and scientific papers by members of the University of Oxford ; the other to be entitled Cambridge Essays , and to consist of" similar papers by members of the sist « r-Univorsity . If the volumes succeed , thesy will be continued annually . The public will be
interested in seeing the two streams of thought thus jetted upon the nation from the two- great seats of learning , and in comparing that which comes from the older institution with its logic and its learning , with that which comes from the younger , famous for its poets and its men of science . Tho non-admission into fcho volumes , also , of any thought not either pure Oxford or pure Cambridge will give the public an opportunity of jud g ing wb . otb . or tho intellectual virtue has gone out of these institutions intosociety at larjre . The long-announced volume of Garumties of Lviidon , by tho well-known and veteran Mr . John Timbs , Jj \ S . A ., is now read y for publication by subscription . Tho author has been collecting materials fortwonty-uvo years ; a . nd tho work ii expected ' to bo , one xich in interest . From , the French pnpers wo gather a most interesting announcement : anew volume of l ' oems , by Victor Ifuao , is about to appisar in I ' aris—the noble
exile resumes his singing robes of happier years , wo * nay presume . I < Yom tho same sourcos wo loan * that tho vacant scat in tho Acndomy is contested by MM . Julius Janin , Ponsa , rd , Emimj Auoirr , and PntLAiiiaTH Ciiasmss , but is likoly to be conferred on a fur loss popular candidate fcluin uny of these — M . lo Vioomte do Falkovx . Commenting on this , M . Louia Jourd / vn , in the Sidde , says : — " M . le Vicointo do Fai .-t . 0 ux has the immense advantage over bin modest competitors of being a ' grand seigneur , ' an ex-minister , and a , friend of MM . CjSuixot and Sai ^ vanoy . Ho has another superiority : ho 1 ms not ; fatigued tho ouhoos of literary glory \ t \ lh his numc , and will enter tho Institute ) with no heavier baggage than a littLo volume ol ' 280 pngos , entitled Louis XVI . I am told , indeed , that M . < le Faiaoux has alno written tho lift ) of some Pope or other . Tho clerical party I ins long arms at preoent ; they roach ovtm to beneath tho dome of tho Inalituto . " Another ubUnguiaUod journalist , our friend Evamnn Fwh-ktais , in tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04111854/page/14/
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