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494 THE LEADER. | Ko.473, April 16> 1859...
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BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN FHANCE. A Neio Tr...
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spiritual life of the sixteenth , century . The next great life , that of Bianca Capello , marks its physical life ; shewing its excelsior in sensuality and criminality , until , at the culminating point , Nemesis appears ; than farewell to the duped pageant , and away with the living puppet , punished for example sake , that others may not seek such dangerous triumphs . Of the remaining biographies , that of Elizabeth Sirani paints the artistic life of the seventeenth century , and that of Olynipia Pamfili , the pontifical . In La Corrilla ~ we have axi example of the manner in which interested despotism
and clinie , in which respect Tullia resembled her mother , but with talents far surpassing . At her house the best society in Rome assembled . She , too , was a poetess—a sonnet writer , but of the Sappho-kind . She flitted from court to court , followed by a train of versifiers and admirers . She was also the authoress of a poem , entitled . " G-uerrino il Meschino , " in 36 cantos of bctava rhyme , and consisting of some thirty thousand lines . Peace to her memory ! The life on which Mr . Trollope has bestowed most labour , and in which his labour has been most successful is that of Olympia Morata . Her high European reputation justified the distinction ; nor is her life without value to us . She marks the
undertakes the patronage of literature , . until it makes its products : ' * safe " for itself , and worthless to the producer . Maria Maddalena Morelli , crowned in Home with the laurel crown which had been honoured by the brows of Petrarch and Tassoshe , with Perfetti , who had likewise been suffered to receive the distinction , has vanished from memory ; her name no longer named among poets or poetesses , but made the subject of a contemptuous biography , illustrative of the corruption of literatiire and the abuse of power .
"We could , have wished that in treating these subjects Mr . Trollope had touched them more lightly . There is a pervading heavy Carlyleism which we would fain have seen substituted by something more wholesome , positive , and original Nevertheless , his gallery of porfat-aits is liighly interesting and instructive ; the lights and shades of contemporary manners are very skilfully disposed . No one can rise from the perusal of these elaborate biographies in other than a thoughtful mood ; and thereafter he will feel himseli" a stronger man , in an intellectual respect , fox * having read them . Let them be read , slowly and carefully by whosoever undertakes the task .
494 The Leader. | Ko.473, April 16> 1859...
494 THE LEADER . | Ko . 473 , April 16 > 1859 .
Biblical Literature In Fhance. A Neio Tr...
BIBLICAL LITERATURE IN FHANCE . A Neio Translation of the Psalms from the Hebrew Text , with Notes and Commentaries . By Ambroise . Hendu . Former Titulary Counsellor of the University , & c , Paris . Vol . I . A novel and very encouraging feature in the present state of 3 ? rench literature is the tendency of some writers to study for themselves anew , and with acertain . amount of independence , the sources of all worldly ¦ wisdom , the basis of all law , and the foundations of all social order—the inspired writings which constitute the Book . Persons wh 6 form their estimate of French modern literature from the historical romances of M . Alexandra pumas , and the romance-histories of M . Thiers ; from the social morality of Madame Dudevant ' s novels , and the political morality of M . Qramier do Cassngnac ' s articles ; from the philosophy of the JEnfantins , and tile religion ^ of M . Veuellot ; from the political economy of writers in the Conatitutionnel , and the treatise of M . Prudhom on the rights of property , will probably be surprised to learn that a public can bo found in France now-adays so indifferent to stock-jobbing , and the glories of the empire , as to read and enjoy a new translation of the Psalms of David . That such should "be tin © case , argues , that all tho educated members of French
the restoration which held it bon tow to patronise , and under the July monarchy , which thought it best let alone , he never ceased to advocate the necessity of religious instruction , while labouring . in the cause of mixed education . # _ There is another feature in connexion with M . Rendu ' s work , which cannot fail to be accepted as a hopeful sign by those who believe that the whole surface of French society is not abandoned to the gaudy but choking weeds of ultramonfanism , who hold stedfastly to the belief that the good seed , sown by the old Huguenot spirit , will yield an abundant harvest in due time , and ultimately afford protecting shelter to the liberties of the Galilean Church , just as here the presence of Protestantism protects English of ¦ And it
Catholics from the encroachments Rome . is this : the author has cast aside that injunction of the Roman Church which forbids giving the Book to the vulgar , and has asserted the fallibility of her judgment , at a time when her infallibility was never more intolerantly maintained , or greater show of defence paid to her by the temporal powers of the world . In a word , M . Rendii docs not accept the vulgate without inquiry . He has undertaken to compare the Latin version of the Psalms , consecrated by the decision of the C ouncil of Trent , with the Greek version of the Sept uagint , and with the Hebrew text itself . Where the vulgate disagreed with the two other versions he has corrected it , and with rare courage has treated the famous Council of Trent as liable to error .
society are not so " used up" as to require the prurient crudities of M . Gozlan , or the detailed dissertations on ftoyal Harlotry of M . Capeflgue , to give them an appetite for roading . Nor is it less remarkable that nn inspector-general of studios in a university , during a period that it was anathematised as ' * godless" by the greater part of the clergy , should dovoto tho ovening of his ( lays to present his , countrymen with the opportunity of enjoying tho grandest poetry of all time—the eonga of , the Prophet King , it is true ; howovor > that although M . Rendu entered upon His educational duties in 1800 , when the doctrines of tho Philosophy of Reason still held partial sway , and worked under the Empire , which made religion an instrument of spate policy , by no means the most respectable , under
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Voyage Piculs . Cost of Outfit . Produce of S & Iph , dols . dols a > First . 617 .. 1 , 101 . 00 .. 8 , 021 . 00 Second ...... 700 .. 1 , 200 , 00 .. 17 , 500 00 Third 1 , 080 .. 3 , 396 . 00 .. 15 ; i 20 . 00 Fourth 840 .. 1 , 200 . 00 .. 12 , 600 00 Fifth 1 , 200 .... 3 , 500 . 00 .. 27 > 000 . 00 "A further profit , it is stated , also arises from the investment of proceeds in China . ' * Here is some good advice . " But the foundation of a fortune can be laid , probablv in all the established pursuits , especially by exjiendinq more than tTie usual care and labour in having the stodi in trade of superior quality . Even in bread , pie or cake baking—numerous as the bakers ¦ arer—I . d . oub £ not many more could do well by producing these articles of a quality better than the average . A lady , the widow of a Boston merchant , who , though' once opulent , had failed , a few years ago made an independence bv baking
what is called domestic bread in contradistinction to what is known as baker ' s bread . Her fresh-looking , sweettasted loaves , of full weight , were so much choicer than the ordinary bread , that customers flocked to her little store and in a very few years she had accumulated enough to purchase five hundred acres of land in ¦ . Michigan , three hundred of which , we were told—five years ago—were in a high state of cultivation , and from these three hundred acres she had raised in one year 6 , 000 dollars worth of wheat . . . ¦ " The principle is equally applicable to mercantile as to mechanical pursuits . A firm in Philadelphia has made a Fortune by putting-up teas in a more neat and convenient form than ordinary , supplying California and other markets with the . packages . A mercantile housein New York received satisfactory returns from a voyage-to at time when all other shi
Australia , a ppers lost money , simply because their goods were of a superior quality , put up in a secure and attractive form , and they arrived out in good order and condition . The United States supply eighty-four per cent , of the cotton consumed in England , principally because the American cotton arrives out in the best possible condition for the subsequent operations of the manufacturer—is better ginned , cleaned , aiid packed than that from any other country . And ajrain , England sells to the United States millions of manufactured goods annually , to the injury of American manufacturers , mainly because there is an impression abroad—daily , however , becoming more unfounded and erroneousthat English goods , at the same price , are superior in quality to the American . The world wants commodities both cheap and good , if possible ; but , at all events , good . "
Opportunities for Industry ; or , a Thousand Chances to make Monet / . By Edwin T . Freedley , author of a Practical Treatise on Business , & c . Sampson , Low , Son , and Co ., Xudgate-hill . Mr . Freedlet is a well-known American writer . He is exceedingly industrious , but rather unscrupulous . He ransacks every kind of work for his materials , is judiciohs in his selection ,, but uses them withoiit stint , and is not always careful in distinguishing his own from what lie borrows . His present work is a continuation in spirit and purpose of his " Treatise on Business , " which is well known in England as a description of the art of makiug money ; and he appropriately uses the late panic as
a peg on which to hang-Jus new recommendations . He encourages the pursuit of wealth , not only by showing how fortunes have been made , of which lie gives numerous anecdotical examples , but by pointing out many means by which they may yet be made . No one can gain imieh by his own unaided exertions , and the great art accordingly is to make one s self useful to others , and get help from many . Or one may make them believe that he can be useful to them , and so get services from them , or money , which is the representative of services . A man may get a large fortune by inventing and manufacturing a steel pen useful to everybody , or he may , by
advertising , make them believe he has done so ; but to get money he must-actually serve others , or make them believe he can serve them . Mr . Preedley enumerates and describes a great number of means of accomplishing this object ; and as they are as numerous as the wants of mankind , and the means of gratifying them , it is only heedful , thus to describe his book and to make a few extracts as samples of the whole . The book is amusing , and will probably be widely read , but does not merit criticism . As a project has of late been entertained to take on ourselves the sovereignty of the Feejee island , the following extract will show how fortunes
are made there . " The despised sen-slug , or JBicho do Mer , has enabled supercargoes to meet their employers with smiling ; fnces , while the cargo of silks , tens , sugar , and of other products pompously imposing on tho manifest , has proved tho bankruptcy of its owner . "It is found among the Fqjee group of islands , and belongs to the Holothuria . When prepared , it finds a ready sale in China , where it is usbd as an ingredient in rich soups . " Firewood is indispensable in tho curing 1 process , each pleul of Bioho do Mar requiring about half a cord of wood to cure It . This fuel is purchased from the chiefs , who sometimes furnish as much as twenty cords for a single musket , The usual price paid for the animals is a whole ' s tooth fora hogshead ; but they are also exchanged
for muskets , powder , balls , vermilion , pnint , axes , hatchets , beads , knives , scissors , chisels , plane-irons , gauges , fish-hooks , small glasses , flints , cotton cloths , cheats , trunks , < Scc . Of beads , blue are preferred , and cotton cloth of tho same colour is most in demand . In tho process of drying , tha Bioho dc JHfor loses two-thirds both of Its weight and bulk , and , when cured , resembles a smoked sausage . In this otnto It Is sold by the nicul ( 133 pounds ) i which brings from fifteen to twenty dollars . Tho JBioho do Mer , is sometimes carried to Canton , but more usually to Manilla , whence it is shipped to China . "In order to show tho profits which arise from the trade hi tho article , tho following tahlo , showing 1 tho returns of flvc voyages to tho Feoloy group , furnished by an Aniorlcuu long engaged in the Dusinoss , Is appended to ( Wlllwtt ' Sketch . '
In the United States there are probably many examples , of land'being-accumulated in large masses , like the following : — " I will now give you a concise history of the operations of Mr . Funk . Both before and after hisi marriage he had made rails for his neighbours at twenty-five cents , per one hundred . 13 ut when the land .-j where he lived came into market , twenty-five years ago , he had saved of his five years' earnings 1 , 400 dollars , and says , it he had invested it all in lands , he would now have been rich . With two hundred dollars he bought his first , quartersection , and loaned to his neighbours eight hundred dollars to buy their homes ; and with the remaining four hundred dollars he purchased a lot of cattle . \\ ith this beginning , Mr . Funk now owns seven thousand acres ot land , lias near twenty-seven hundred in cultivation , ana his last year ' s sales of cattle and hogs , at t )» e Chicago , market ) amounted to a little over forty-lour thousand dollars
. . ., ... " Mr . Isaac Funk , of Funk ' s Grove , nine miles distant from his brother Jesse , and ten mi us north-west from Blooihington , on the Mississippi and Clucftgo Railroad , began the world in Illinois at tin ; same time , haying a little the advantage of Jesse , so far as having a little borrowed capital . Ho now owns about twenty-seven thousand acres of land ; has about four thousand acres in cultivation ; and his last sales of cattle at Chicngo amounted to sixty thousand dollars . "
The Philological Eswys Of The L«'° *™' R...
The Philological Eswys of the l « ' ° *™ ' R' f %£ Garnett , of tho British Museum , kill ted by his Son William nnd Norgato . The papers comprised incite volumo huvo been declared by no loss eminent an authori y t ran iJr . Priehard , in his work an tho Eastern Origli of the Celtic" Nations , to bo " by far the best works m com parativo grammar and ethnology of tho "ontugr . This excellence they owo not alone to tho « ' £ . JJgg and scholarly exactness of the author ' s l ' » J ° g » J ? S attainments , but to the affluent diversity ot know ledge which lie had gathered from h < ° » 9 7 ° " ^ S books , and stored up in a mind of great ™ t «™ ^ gJJ and sagacity . So much we infer from the facts recorded in thbrief memoir prefixed to the volume . Mft Garnott , his son tells us , was anything but a mow linguist . It would have been difficult to findI anything with whieJi ho was . not more or loss coj vorsane , from Sanscrit and mathematics , to choss ami tno manufUcturo of artiflcial flios , for ho was w » ontnu siastio angler . Ilia original destination In . boylwoo was to be placed with a house engaged » Joroign commerce , and with this viov ho was eon , to > Ljoaj to bo instructed by an Italian gentlemen "'"" fj ™^ In tho principal continental languages . " ° * ° £ . manifostud , llfco Prank Osbaldistoivas rong pou * lection for the Italian pootfl , though 11 did uot oadumi to neglect tho Italian art of book keeping , bubsoquo ^ ly he remained at homo for several years ab OUoj ,
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16041859/page/14/
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