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Lamartine On Waterloo. Hisloire De La Re...
We leave these pages uncriticised , and direct your attention to what is really excellent . ra the narrative ; for , although it is i naccu rate and French , it is intensely interesting , and carries you on with the fascination of romance . No extract of ours would convey an idea of the picturesqiieness and sustained animation of the . narrative . ^ Get the book and read it . Besides the account of Waterloo , you will find a biographical study of Murat done with immense splendour , and some portraits here and there which exhibit all Lamartme ' s fine qualities . ¦
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Books On Our Table. The German Language ...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The German Language in One Volume . By Falckh Lebahn . Fourth Edition . Simpkin and Marshall . We have on more than one occasion expressed our opinion of Mr . Falckh Lebahn ' s system , especially adapted for self tuition , and have only now to state that this volume before us contains a practical grammar with exercises—Undine , with its explanatory notes—a vocabulary of 4500 words synonymous in German and English—and a Key to the Exercises . Martin Toutrond ; or , Adventures of a Frenchman in London . By James Morier . ( Bentley ' s Shilling Series . ) Bentley . A reprint in the Shilling Series issued by Mr . Bentley for Railway reading , very poorly illustrated with woodcuts . The humour of the book is quiet and not unamusing , but Unfortunately the idea of a Frenchman -writing his impressions of London has been hacknied in Punch , and surpassed in extravagance by the actual " impressions " of Frenchmen . The Scarlet Letter . A Komance . By Nathaniel Hawthorne . { Railway Library . ) G » Koutledge . Is there any one of our readers unacquainted with the Scarlet Letter , that romance par excellence ? Let him at once step out from such a minority and invest a shilling in a treat such as he rarely can purchase ! History of the Whig Ministry of 1830 to the Passing of the Beform Bill . By J . A . Roebuck , M . P . 2 vols . — J . W . Parker and Son . Etudes sur W . Shakspeare , Marie Stuart , et L'Aretin . Par Philarfite Chasles . _ W . Jeffs . Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli . By B . W . Emerson and W . H . Charming . 3 voIb . Bentley . The Daltons . By Charles Lever . Chapman and Hall . The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe . By W . Harrison Ainsworth . Chapman and Hall . The British Quarterly Review , for February . Jackson and Watford . The British Journal , for February . Aylott and Jones . Mr . Sponge ' s Sporting Tour . With Illustrations by Leech . Part II . Bradbury and Evans . Story of a Feather . Part I . By Douglas Jerrold . Fraser ' s Magazine , for February . Parker and Son . Tait ' s Magazine , for February . Simpkin , Marshal , and Co . Tfie Comic History of Rome . No . 9 and 10 . Illustrated by Leech . Bradbury and Evans . Knight ' s Pictorial Shakespere . Charles Knight . Shakspere ' s History . Charles Knight . Half Hours of English History . By Charles Knight . Charles Knight . The Country House . Charles Knight . Curiosities of Industry . Charles Knight . The Companion Shaksperc . Part I . King John and King Richard III . Charles Knight . Half Hours with the Best Jtuthors . With Biographical and Critical Notices , Charles Knight . The Best Story ~ Tellers . A Collection of Popular Fictions of All Nations . Charles Knight . The North British Review . . Kennedy , Edinburgh . The Reasaner . Part 78 . Watson . Chambers . 's Pocket Miscellany . Vol . 11 . Orr and Co . 2 'hc Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets , Philosopher * , 8 [ c . Part II . Orr and Co . The Poetic Review . By J . Passmore Edwards . The Public Good , By J . Passmoro Edwards . The Biographical Magazine . By J . Pasamoro Edwards . The Prospective Review . A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature . John Chapman .
Oystp<K. Life.—Somebody Has Styled Fodsu...
Oystp < k . Life . —Somebody has styled fodsuiferoua rocks " monuments of the felicity of past ages . " An undisturbed oyster-bed is a concentration of happiness in the present . Dormant though the several creatures there congregated scorn , each individual is leading the beatified existenco of an Epicurean god . The world without—its cares and joys , its storms and calms , its passions , evil and good—all are indifferent to the unheeding oyster . Unobservant even of what passes in its immediate vicinity , its whole soul is concentrated-in itself ; yet not sluggishly and
apathetically , for its body is throbbing with lifo and enjoyment . The mighty ocean is subservient , to its pleasures . ' . The rolling waves waft fresh and choice food within its reach , and the flow of the curent feods it without requiring an effort . Each atom of water that comes in contact with its delicate gills ovolves its imprisoned air to freshen and invigorate the creature ' s pellucid blood . Invisible to human eye , unless aided by the wonderful inventions of human science , countless millions of vibrating cilia are moving incessantly with eynchronic beat on every fibre of each fringing leaflet . — Westminster Review , No . 111 .
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Gobthb . .
Aspects . Of Death. Time Rolls, And Mont...
ASPECTS . OF DEATH . Time rolls , and month by month The upswelling blood of nature fills her veins , And the brig ht wooing sun From the dear earth hath won , A tender blush of flowers that gladden all her plains The waves come leaping in , And I lie clasp'd within The kind -warm arms of nature . I could die In such a mood as this , my limbs dissolved Should be to some new herb of loveliest shape resolved . And I would pour my soul , A cup of spirit-wine from out its breathing bowl , To help the electric force Which wings the stars on their unchanging course , Or sprouts among the leaves , and I could be So lost in nature as to compensate for me . So dreams the poet , thinking , So dreams the artist , drinking Fresh draughts of beauty every fresh-created day . Till o ' er his half-escaped spirits sweep Enchaining human memories , fond and deep . Dear brothers , strong and true , Had I , forgetting you , Surrender'd u p my spirit before the throne Of great Queen Nature , did you but require My love , my service , from the quivering fire , From rock , and wave , and flower , I know would start The outward forms and strengths of my unwavering heart ; And my life spring obedient when you claim'd your own . I fear not life , mine eyes ate bold for seeing , I fear not death , nor any change of being . Meek for the present , strong for the coming d ay , I tell my soul to be , as be it may , Only Lfear that I , who walk along , Guarded ufhuman love , so happy and so Strong , Be cut from such communion , and the roll Of Death ' s impenetrable waters surge alone my soul . Oh grave ! Hast thou the victory over love ? Love with the fearless eyes ? I do not think That our frail brotherhood , if moving towards that brink . Beneath whose unseen depth lies black oblivion . Could wear the high and beautiful aspect it guideth on When it goes forth to conquer ill , and give Proof that the holy hope and dare to live . Oh grave ! Hast thou the victory over love ? Black shadow , creep not over sunny life , Which , stirring to put forth , Some flowers of heavenly worth Shrinks from thine image in unequal strife . Oh thou , who gatherest youth , Genius , and beauty to thy dark embrace , Let one dear smile of pity gleam upon thy face . Seeds that we sow in God , expand to flowers above , Leave us , Who lose so much , eternity and love . ¦ B .
Liberty Of Vocation. Whenever We * Come ...
LIBERTY OF VOCATION . Whenever we * come to explore the foundations of social polity , with intent to ascertain the latent law by which they are sustained , we are invariably referred to those constitutional elements in man which render him capable of association with his fellows—to that instinct for society which proves a helpful intercourse and communion among mankind to be a preordained necessity . But inasmuch as the material world is constituted with a view to human uses , and thus men could not long
associate together save on terms of mutual interest , it is obvious that Society must be formed , and indeed tend to shape itself , in such wise as shall in some sort , or in some particular , conduce to the general advantage ; and that , without an aim or tendency of this kind , it cannot possibly be maintained . The definite manifestation it may take will undoubtedly be determined by the circumstances which operate most powerfully in-connecting men together in different stages of their development ; in rude ages
the desire of mere security , the passion for conquest , and the like ; and in stages of higher civilization commercial exigencies , community of ideas , assimilation of habits , peculiarities of culture ; but in every case there must be some principle of unity , some binding condition whioh renders the maintenance of the society desirable , by more or less contributing- to the general service and contentment . Without this element of common benefit , no society could originate ; and in proportion as it becomes extinguished in communities—which
alis no finality short of absolute perfections—it is likewise clear that every successive form which society may assume will be required to include the original element of a common advantage and convenience , and to extend to its component members such prospects and opportunities of well-being as the expanding character of their culture and aspirations shall demand . All the external facts of time and circumstance , all the combinations of social power and expediency , must have a just relation to the tendencies which subsist in the nature and mind of man . For the essential capabilities of human nature are the true and sole foundations for
ways happens when partial and selfish , interests obtain an exclusive or dominant development- ^ in such proportion does the society always tend towards decay , and may be expected to fall ultimately into anarchy and dissolution . J It is only as a visible and living representation of the laws of being that society can possess any enduring subsistence or stability . And though it is manifest that every social development is a growth which , by the law of human progress , must disappear and give place to some new and larger manifestation of the social principle—so that there
whatever is to be manifested in the thought , activity , or life of human beings ; since that which is inwardly present in man ' s nature must of necessity incline to reveal itself in his outward acts and efforts , and predetermine his authentic destination . The service which constituted societies render , in the way of providing , for the individual needs of men , is necessarily varied , as we say , by the objects of men ' s pursuit in their different social stages , and definitely modified by the peculiarities of the prevailing cultivation . Under barbarism and
feudal forms of polity , in which the relations of intercourse and connection are extremely rude and simple , the will of the leader or territorial proprietor is the commonest symbol or revelation of the law . by which . the communityvis . united ; and , as the person invested with that significant position usually represents , in a demonstrative and more eminent degree , the general sense and aims of his adherents ; it follows that , by the superiority of his
insight and decision , he is able successfully to conduct them towards the objects which they are instinctively , though leas consciously , pursuing . The quality of his leadership may be said to lie in his gift for discerning what his associates and dependants are in quest of ; and he is their actual king and champion by virtue of his capacity for aiding and directing them in the way of its attainment . Under circumstances such as these , the
liberties of the individual are but imperfectly regarded , and , indeed , are often necessarily sacrificed to the paramount requirements of the occasion . But as a higher and more liberal civilization becomes established , there grows up a tendency in the society to relax the primitive stringency of relationship , and to recognise more distinctly the rights of personality—a tendency to detach and isolate the individual from the mass , and to
surround him with independent and superior advantages . And in this , we think , may he perceived an indication that it is the drift of progress to exalt and honour man in his personal and private being j to furnish him with opportunities for the more perfect manifestation of his inborn attributes ; to give him scope for the exercise of his individual qualities and aptitudes ; so that every variety of genius , talent , and capacity shall , in the end , get successfully developed , and have leave to work in freedom for the general social welfare .
This is , in our apprehension , the highest state of Liberty . A man ' true and only reasonable liberty is that which enables or constrains him to do w hat m ost effectually tends to promote thendvancement of his moral interests , and to perfect him in such disciplines as will facilitate his usefulness as a rational and responsible personation of humanity . Hence the most desirable kind of liberty that could be sought after is probably that which has been aptly styled the " Liberty of Vocation . " That a man should have freedom and opportunity to address himself to such pursuits as will best display his force , and illustrate the bent and determination of
his character—that he should so manifest his nature and the inclination of his faculties as to work out for himself a mode of action and of living answerable to the tendency of his constitution—seems to be one of the first and most important requisites towards the fulfilment of his destiny . An order or employments founded upon human aptitudes , whereby each should be furthered and encouraged to select that in which he can best of all succeed , would evidently be the truest method that could be
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021852/page/20/
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