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The Magazines For September Rarely Have ...
e £ e * cb pew and . announcing bi & arrival to the rnanates with a- clear , load , — " Here am I . " This move bax £ the desired efleefc ; for , kv a very few moments , « v < uy e ^ was * tarned-upon our hanu The worthy parson folding himself in a decided minority , and : pwceiving . broad g » fa » coming over the befone solemn , fteeas- of his -flock , At once stopped *^ the : service sn & desiradi the clerk to eject the intruder . But the order was moee eaafifcp fprat than , eaecobed . Jack waa detemnittad . not to leave , and so * finding himself pursued , took refuge in a forest of legs belonging , to his young MenSat , tbe sckool-daldren v -who did notappeaar at aOL unwilling , to afford hint shelter . The « l & rk . nished oa , intent upon , catcfaang . the enemy and putting , an end to this unorth . o-< L > a proceeding , and . oreir , first a beach , aaudithea a child , lie stumbled , in his attempte to pounce upon the fugitive , who easily evaded his grasp and always appeared j , uat ¦ where the clerk waa not , informing , him ever and anon of his- whereabout by the old ¦ cry- — - ** Hera am L . "' At lasfc , -with ? the help . o £ two or thiee- of the congregation- who had joined 5 a the pursuit , a capture was . effected , and Jack was ignorainiously turned ¦ out and the door closed upon hint , After the lapse of a- few'minutes ; , order and solemnity -were restored ia the elmrch ; - and the- prayers were recommenced andi ended ¦ without nutter disturbance .
The parson , in duetimev ascended to-the pulpit . Hfe gave out his text and commenced a discourse ? calculated , no doubt , to be : of mueh benefit to hi * hearers ; but he liad . not proceeded far when ; he was interrupted , by a loud noise- accompanied by rap-Jingiat . the kittle -window at the : back of the pulpit . Turning round , to ascertain the « auset he beheld our friend Jack , peeking away at the window , flapping his -wings againat it , and . screaming at the top of his voice—" Here am I—Here am I" a fact ¦ which , bo- one couM gainsay / or resist , laughing at- The worthy parson , finding his . own . gravity , and that of Ms congregation ; so entirely upset by what had occurred , brought liis sermon to a speedy conclusion , and dismissed the congregation . Sentence of death w-aa-reooudad against the offender , ibut , upon the petition , of a number of the paaiahconeKi fc it was commuted , to banishment for life from the precincts of the church-. « 5 uch is ; the story of friend . Jack . Th & magpie is , as we know , a leading character in more than , one celebrated drama ; , and . the following anecdote shows tliat the drama may become a traged y ; of the saddest laud r—
ffew readers are not familiar -mth'JLariy Morgan's Itccty , though some may not remember a sad story there told :.. Qppoa & a -to the lofty Doric column- raised to . commemorate tie defeat of Pietro Strozzi , and the taking of Sienna , stood , when Lady Morgan wrote , and , probably ,, still stands ,, a house , wherein a noble lady resided . Cosmo I . Tost a valuable pearl neckTace , and a young girl was accused of the theft , -whisk she solemnly denied . According to the detestable custom of the time , aha -was- pjot- to the torture . The terrible infliction : waa mare than her delicate nerves ¦ couldbear , and like the fragile and innocent Eameral < la she declared that she was . guilty , jind without further trial was , like Esmeralda , hung . Soon after this cruel execution , a- tremendous storm broke over- Florence . A thunderbolt fell on the figure ¦ of Justice and split tile scales , ' one of which fell toth = e earth—and , with it , fell the ruina of a * magpie ' s neat containing , the pearl necklace . An Essay on Crotckefcs ? is ; a cmakifc moral dissertation on . the peculiarities ¦ of character which . Englishmen are reputed to possess to a greater extent than the natives , of any other country . Here is a . speculation on a curious subject thsd , greatly perplexes : most-readers of the Times ' : — '
\ Ve occasionally see an acknowledgment from the Chancellor of the Exchequer of a bank-note which has been transmitted to him as conscience-money . Not long iJgoj we observed that one hundred-pounds had been seat to him 'from one who had often snot without a Beense in liis yonth . ' Had the nraai been addicted to poaching ? haft ft been h » 'dteEght on a shiny-night , in the season of the year ? ' Then perhaps he Bad : tsfeen- a- game and ? provision shop , and got on in the world . We often wonder what kind of a- person he is who pours Ms money so recklessly into Her Majesty's Exchequer ; We are not aware that we ever met with , a man who pot such a screwon b . » conscience ! Is he a Puseyite awaking to a sense of the truth ? OraMethodlsb . compounding for sanding his sugar and ! watering his tobacco ? Or w Quaker ¦ vrno- abftrres alt compalisory levies wlratever ? Or is tte advertisement a decention in
foto < —a meredotfgo on the part of trie Chancellor of the Exchequer to make the nation beKeve that our taxes are just—a decoy-duck for th-e slaughter of genuine taxpayers . Tr ^ howaves , a bonaJiSis transmitter of conscience-money exists , we have a notwn ( f & at Ire 13 * a crotcBtety behng ; A person : may lie all conscience or no conscience , eMttir of whicb comEtwrns is a * dangerous- one . We pity our friend ' s wife ; she has a weary tune with Mm , no doubt . My yo-athfirl' lady reader , never marry a man- who to your knowledge- baa sent conscience-money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , if yon valuer yonr future peace . Better -take ourselves , an old bachelor subject to periodical fits of tike gout . Her may be , it is true , a well-meaning but wotchety fellow , acting simply on the impulse of a freak—a pig-headed animal who determines to do like nobody else—trs unpersuadable as the simpleton who adopts the maxim of ' oyery man his own doctor , ' and coaxes for himself a chronic complaint—aa hnpractfcablfe as he who acts upon the principle of ' erory man his own lawyer , ' and leaves : « snug * lawsuit for Iris descendants to the fourth generation . Go . tLa whole , tlie writer is Justly lenient to crotchety inca , but some of the species ^ , such asi tlie following , for example , rouae kia bile : —
WlMnrwsr yow tuna in- life you meet -with this species od cur , snarling and snapping ah every decant man ' ft trousers . Wa ia now , suppose , sitting in committee , and tber raaatafaon to . b « pasBedlia , that two and two maka four . There seema to bo a gwwral uaianimitiy on tho subject , © no g-entltomon , romarkabl * for hie caution ,. ha « cwtatnLy wrahadi to try- the problem on they d < o » deoins » l principle . Another , who . baa ttw ^ eputaticTO ofl being a great logician ^ ho £ F argued' the point at som e lengthy and with much fairness . But all appear to bo agreed thu * two and tw <* make four . Tlu > « h « toin « n ib on tho . point of puttin © tk « motionv when , up jujnns Mr . Jaggeu . 'jon :. h « has reserved himself for a gceat efFort . Two and . two make four , gentlemen ! < , an anything bo more absurd than to affirm this as a general rule ? It ia contrary to Scnpturo—downright infidelity I Ho thanks Providence that ho hns now been morrxML atghtyeajai to his dwurwife / JCohonaK * ( h « had kicked her only tha evening * eribn ^ . and . didiwt Soriptaro say thatethey two were one floahJ Then ! ho had two 4 cuddraa Jhe had sdnti thorn tobwL
arUag ( > without bheio-supnor , for no . ueaaom whjit-« vor , before heicarao to tho meeting ) . Would any man , say ^ in the case of himself , toSm-wiibj , nd finally ., thot two and . two , were four- ? H & now tuuna his asperity on life UHiom-camwaitaofmn . Hi * foiend ^ Mr ^ (& ripoail—h « is iropposeA to lend out « aan « y « tftiwwxoi » ratehof intoresb-miakea , twoto « d two into twenty :, then , leaving fttrn aoittanetiBaH question he Iaudcoas ou * into . bitt « r inuendooa . and provoking : albuawaulirWoh may apply-t * aomvwho ttte Pro 3 tttf and , many wh * . are abaent ; and attto ^ ilamn m a . atato- of pjoowpeisipwationv lito dVcltara * tliot hf 3 conscienca wilL not IZ ^ L l ^ l ' CTna T t * * inemtt 0 ff of * ownwiiiWWB . which oatu affirn * that twa » nd tmo > n » te fiMUt }& mr r ¦ whwt amnoyw aw moat ; widhu . tha . gwmia . JcwgfiBson , iat , th « fc tlie momtomaroi « mir <« Uun » « fl th « g * canadoiMa-. propwtjp aUoub which , tlioy Janowwh ' »^«* nwQ ) homr . hkndi d oaa ofl . noutoaB tint . If a highwayman coro 4 . ua . to 3 < XKwiti » mxem ** m MB * dtamxmtoyonv purse , VHyv y « t ds » nxrt H > TO the maa ,
Tcrtainly , tut there is an honest dishonest y about him after all . He makes no m-ot to superior sanctity . He does not take high , moral ground with you He wnnVT * finger your purse , and have donewfth the-business , and so he telis vou Ti t t your snivelling wretch , who is ever pinning a sham conscience oh his sleeve Wvn he is robbing a- neighbour of what is more valuable than his purse—vour vilo' w crite who is- concealmg : hatefol lies under-texts of Scripture , and coiwdW slander " under a love of the Decalogue , why , we say nothing . Carlyle would sav—sViiTPM ? him . And " yet , is it not illustrative of the Englishman ' s peaceable nature ? Thf kind ' or man will often snarl through seventy years , and die in his bed unkicked . Fmser contains , besides , a good article on ' Naval Education / as Bkc hcoocl does' on - c Military- Education . ' The Dublin University Magazine is quite as good as usual , in some respects better , the stories by SiimiEr Brooks and B ' laitchaed Jerrold beiii" - con tinuedin the present number , and gaining in interest as they proceed .
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Rusein's Elements Of Dbawiifg. The Eleme...
RUSEIN'S ELEMENTS OF DBAWIIfG . The Elements of Drawing , in Three Letters to Beginners . By John Huslrio . M , A Author of Modern Painters , Seven Lamps of Architecture , Stones of Venice Lectures on Architecture and Painting , ( J-c . # c . \ Yith Illustrations drawn bv tfae Author . Smith , Elder , and Co . In tlris book Mr . Ruskirr writes for the use of children of twelve or fourteen years old . He assumes tliat , for many and weighty reasons , drawin g is a good thing to be tatrghfc , and justly . If Mr . Thomas Dyke Acland is correct in saying that tlie study and practice of music teach , tlie child to discipline hrs feelings and his tastes in association with others , giving at once the habit of co-operation and refinement of feeling , so drawing accustoms men to--bring- ' their observations to a definite shape , and to acquire the power of conveying their remarks in a tangible form . You will usually find
the- practised draughtsman not only illustrating his statements with his pencil , but pressing- his observation as much [ as " possible in a concrete shape , that is , in a tangible and practical shape . Mr . Ruskin also thinks that with one hour ' s practice in the day for six ¦ ¦ months , or of e-very other day for twelve months , the pupil will aeqxiire sufficient power ; of drawing feithfblly what he wants to draw , and have judgment up toa certain point of other persons' work . Here , again , we beii « ve that he is correct . One of the faults of teaching is the attempt to teach too muck at a time ,, and for too leng a time together ; a . practice -wliich prevents the pupil from , really learnitig what- he is taught , and . forces him into a habit of pretending to learn what he does not master . The book , however , is a curious illustration- of Mr . Buskin ' s leadinsr defect
in tue observation and explanation ofart . He has a peculiar notion with regard to draughtsmanship , based upon an optical theory , — -that everything one sees around presents- itself to the eye- only aa an arrangement of patches : of colour variously shaded . Guided by « nature , ' therefore ,, he avoids outline study ; and we shall presently see whither this leads him . It is quite true tha . t objects present themselves only in patches of colour ; but those patches have boundaries which form , what is called ' outline . ' Now in order to give that complete outlvn < j in its actual shape , by patch-work the work must be absolutely finished ; if it be d © ne with any dtegree of roughness or incompleteness the outline which principally expresses the shape is not simply absent , it is disturbed and distorted . To a certain extent the outline of ordinary draughtsmanshi p ' is aa arbitrary character ; it is that postulate with which -ill human work must begin—a something to he granted ; but it is that with which
begins the clearest conception of the form to be delineated—the clearest and the-moat dtefmite . And it is that part : of draughtsmanship upon which Mr . Euskin ' s observation , appear s' to . have been the weakest .. He says that tlie beat books to put into the hands of a child are those illustrated by George Cruikshankor by Richier . Now , why ? George Cruikshank conveys character by the help of arbitrary lines , outline , or shading well enough suited to his own particular genius , but altogether unavailing for tho plodding draughtsmen . And his forms , though sometimes happy , are often , and in certain- cases always , against nature . For instance , he almost invariably makes the thorax of a woman's form so small that it is impossible to account foi ' tlie anatomy of the figure between the throat and waist . And why Kichter ? —a man who represents gentle feelings , but has no capacity wluitover for the . exact imitntion of the- human anatomy .
In tins instruction hook Mr ; Raskin ; worka march at what we may consider th « acces 30 J'ies of art—landscape-painting , scene-painting , architecture , and costume . He geta to the human part only so far as its moral aspect is concerned . For examplte , he has some excellent remarks upon the Will-o ' -thewisp freedom- of hand ' : — Mischief ( Fie says ) , may easily bo done quickly , but good and beautiful work is generally done Blbwly . You williind no boldness in the way . A ( lower or a bird ' s wmg ia painted ; and ff Nature is not bold . at her work , do you think you ought to be at yours ? So itevor miaul what people say , but work with your pencil-point very patiently ; and if you can trust me in anything , trust me when . I tell you , that though there -are all kinds aud ways of art—large work for largo places , small ' work for narrow places , slow work for people who can wait , and quick work for people who cannot—thorc ia . one quality , and , I tliink , only one , in which all great nwd good art agrees—it is nil delicate art . Coarse art is always bad art .
While-his . instructions , in the rnxu-ality of drawing have much in them that ia good , if be wiahes . ki » book , to-become serviceable , to beginners he will extricate any future edition ; from the criticism , and hypercriticbm with which he lms- ovorclonded it—bothering , not to sity bewildering' , the child of twelve or fourteen , to whom- it ia addressed ' . Ht ? ie like that othei ? ' eminent vrriter tsFte ' Roving Ehgliahmwn f he cannot resist tile impulse ^ to dictate as well as to- teach , to declaim , to pour Himself ant on every subject ho touches . He cannot ( p . 14 ) advise tho use of a piece of stale bread ' i « preference to a piece of india-rubber without a foot-note lecture , t ' en lines long , upon malaria a mess , on the floor with breiul-cruinbe aud upon tlie wrong ol ¦ wasting good bread . There iflj ind « ed , a . curious moral twiat ia . fcliia . teacher— ha ia , Cull of adova-
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/18/
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