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PRELUDE. Bordeaux, September 27,1851. ff...
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Jekdan's Autobiography. The Autobiograph...
which set the house in a roar ( as much as a French audience can be made to laugh ) , and reconciled the opposition . "I am told , by the by , that in America there is almost , at least in some parts of the Union , a similar fastidiousness and aversion to the outward and visible sign of being much entertained . It is told of one of our most comic actors , on his _American tour , that he considered it the hi ghest compliment paid to him in the country , when , one night after his performance , a representative of this class addressed him with , ' Well , stranger , I guess you had almost made jne laugh at some of your nonsense . ' "
PAEB , AND MACINTOSH . " About the time of the trial of O'Quigley , who was hanged at Maidstone , for treason , in 1798 , some articles appeared in the Morning Chronicle , apparently reflecting on Fox . Dr . Parr read . them , and was much disp leased . He attributed them to Macintosh ( not then Sir James ) because they contained some literary criticism or remark which Parr thought he had communicated to Macintosh exclusively ; in point of fact , he was wrong , as it turned out in the sequel that Macintosh had nothing to do with them ; but while in the state of wrath which his belief that
Macintosh was the author occasioned , he ( Dr . Parr ) and Macintosh dined together at the table of Sir William Milner , in Manchester-street , Manchester-square . In the course of conversation , after dinner , Macintosh observed , that ' O'Quigley was one of the greatest villains that ever teas hanged . ' - Dr . Parr bad been watching for an opening , and immediately said , ' No , Jemmy ! bad as he w as , he might have been a great deal worse . He was an Irishman ; he mig ht have been a Scotchman He was a priest ; he might have been a lawyer ! He stuck to his principles—( giving a violent rap on the table )—he might have betrayed them ! '
" The made up addition to this philippic , living only ' on the lip , ' has converted the third branch into , * He was a turncoat ; he might have been a traitor ! ' Or , ' He was a traitor : he might have been an apostate . ' "
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BOOKS ON OUB TABLE Piography of Dr . Sheridan Muspratt , F . R . S . E . By a London Barrister-a . t-Law . And a third edition of the _Infhtence of Chemistry on the Animal , Vegetable , and Mineral Kingdom . By Dr . Sheridan Muspratt . Churchill . Has Dr . Sheridan Muspratt no friends , or have they no influence over him , that such a publication as this can have been suffered ? It will more seriously damage him in the estimation of all , withont his circle , who may chance to read it , than the discovery of a dozen sulphites would elevate him . Could he but be aware of the impression , it produces he would instantly suppress the book . Men of the " titanic energy" here claimed can do without such trumpet blowing . History of the Christian Church in the Second and Third Centuries . By James Amiraux Jeremie , M . D . J . J . Griffin and Co .
The Free Church of Christendom and its Subjugation under Constantine . B y Basil A . Cooper . A . Cockshaw . Ncander ' s General History of the Christian Religion and Church . Translated by I . Tony . Vol . 7 . ( Holm ' s Standard Library . ) H . Gr . Bohn . These three volumes of ecclesiastical history , each of which would require very long articles to treat fittingly , w e group together , that in a sentence we may direct the attention of such readers as are specially interested in the subjects . Dr . Jeremie ' s volume on Church History is a reprint from the _Encyclopaedia Metropolilana , the various treatises in which are now in course of separate publication . It
presents , in a compact form , a distinct orthodox survey of the diffusion of Christianit y and the history of the Church and its heresies during the first three centuries . An index is added . The volume of Mr . Basil Cooper , on the Free Church of Ancient Christendom , embraces the same period , but is written with another purpose , having an eye to modern nonconformity . It is graphic and erudite . But we have to complain of a serious omission—there is no index ! The third volume is Neander ' s exhaustive Church History , the seventh volume embracing the period from Gregory VII . to Boniface VIII ., i . e . from the year 1073 to 1294 ; a work we have so often characterized that nothing remains to be said .
The Physician ' s Holiday ; or , a Month in Switzerland in the Summer _o _/' 1848 . By Je . _lu ' i Forbes , M . D . " Third Edition . "W . S . Orr and Co . Vki . v apropos i . s this pleasant and useful book . Now men are throwing off thc accumulated ennui nnd paleness of a London season ; now they pack up for a breath of fresh air and a gulp of health ; and now Dr . Forbes ' s account of his walking tour in Switzerland will say to many , _" Go thou and walk likewise . " It is an agreeable book to read—a valuable book as a prescription to invalids . The minute practical information it contains will make it as indispensable as a Murray to travellers in Switzerland . Pog m ' s Guides for Travellers . —I . Belgium and the _Ilhine . With Maps anel Plans .
JX Bogue . M it . Boo ni : here issue's the first , of a series of Guide Books to rival Murray . The plan is new , and seems a good one : experience only can decide as to its merits . It is cheaper than Murray , and very considerably more portable . ' . Pictures of Life at Home and Abroad . By Albert , Smith . Bentley . Wi : u , worth a place in 1 tent , ley ' s Shilling Scries were , these random , rollicking sketches , very funny , very fast ,, and sometimes very melodramatic , thrown off by Albert Smith in the rare intervals--brief yet pregnant—which he snatches from the laborious composition of his great work , The . Geology of the . Glaciers , soon we hope to be ; laid he fore fhe scientific world . To the general render that work will , it is probable , be caviare ; be had better , therefore , fall back upon the Pictures of L ' fe .
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PRELUDE . Bordeaux , September 27 , 1851 . ff _^^@ EAR Fkiends of my thoughts , | RjK You will see hy the date how far I have come in my MiF _^ P _^ _grimage away from the sacred spot ; and I have to tell you for _c _^ _sks _£ © your solace that I am as well in hody as I am in mind and heart . If you are hurt , seek the winds and the waters , seek humanity in the changeful countenance of many climes—seek vicissitude , and note how , through many discords , the hand of the Divine Master modulates the great theme of the world , ever resolving it into new harmonies . If the sufferer can rise above the level of his own home , like the crane , and call into his view the
ever-varying surface of the sea of fortune , he shall see that the law under which he has heen cast down is hut the same law which raises all into life , which sustains the universe . Life and love never die ; and exiled for a time from happiness , we may at least go forth and witness what we cannot share , or share only through witnessing . There is no unredeemed misery save the loss of the capacity to love—the sinking . beneath into meanness and unfaith ; for love can survive bereavement , but it cannot survive the loss of generosity . I am stronger in heart than . when I left Val Perduta . I have had no letters from America , and do not expect to find any until I get to Paris ; but I am sure that Julie cannot reach London before April , and if she follow my counsel , I shall not see her before May : as she has remained so long , she had better wait for the spring weather .
When I wrote to you from Lugano , and also from Geneva—my letters have been as irregular as my path or as my thoughts—I forgot to explain that which you , Giorgio , have received long before this one , from the worthy Baldassare Gini . I dare say he may have told you enough to forestall my story , but he will not have told you what I saw , at all events not . as I saw it . You see how soon I encountered adventure on my way from Val Perduta . I had been sleeping near the river , just as it escaped from a ravine , beyond which I could discern a pretty lake-like expansionfor the days were still hot , and I know not what awoke me . Certainly not the stinging hum of insects ; nor , as certainly , the persons I saw , for they made no noise . Just as I awoke I saw a young girl come down to the edge of the water , at a place where the bank dipped near to the surface ,
and a small coppice of underwood filled the hollow . She did not see me , although her face was towards me ; no one would have looked just where I had found shelter from the sun , under the rock and the shade of an old vine , the relic of cultivation when the whole country was richer than it is now . Her look made me notice something floating on the water , which I discerned to be the black head of a man , whose brig ht shoulders glistened in the sun and the glancing water as he swam rapidly towards the place where she stood . She was already leaning forward , and she leaned more and more , until he rose from the stream , brilliant and agile , like a noonday Leander , into some cloak which she had brought to receive him . She fell into his arms , and then , after a few kisses , so passionate that I loved the two for being so happy , she turned for him to lead her from
the water . I have kept for you two the drawing which I made from recollection ot that strange and beautiful group ; only that I was not near enough to do justice to it . The youth , who was nearest to me , was holding one hand of the girl's , his left arm round hex waist , his head , with the black curls parting upon his white neck , stooping down ; his draped body , like a living statue , moving with the lithe grace of perfect youth . Although he moved gently , every movement of his figure was eloquent of vigour and agihty . Her figure I could not so well see ; but her red boddice g lanced behind his sharply-defined and brilliant shoulder . And so they walked on the brown dried grass , beneath the blue sky , and were passing among the green shrubs .
At that moment , emerged two men , ono of whom made a g listening blow at the young man . The lovers separated as if hy instinct ; the girl drew aside , and the youth , still unharmed , dashed off up the hill—the cloak parting from him like a sail from the storm-pressed ship . I could not paint that—the headlong flectness with which he ran , bounding and skimming along the broken ground ; a g lowing , Hy ug statue , bright against the green and brown of the foliage ; now chasing his shadow in the full glow of the broad sunshinenow glancing between the
, straggling trees and vines . I had already conceived a sympathy lor the young Leander ; and I rose tip to interfere , resolved at least to counterbalance thc odds against him . But my good purpose was his misfortune . At the sight of me corning steadily in front of him , he instinctively piniset , as if discovering a new pursuer , and then turned aside . But brief as i had been , the pause was sufficient for disaster . One of the men came up with him , something bright again gleamed for a second in the sun , «¦»' the young man fell . He rose again , and ran a few paces , but the _eecon <
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14081852/page/20/
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