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It is not onr intention , however , nor would it be possible , to go over the various matters which aTe registered in this instructive volume . We can only record the general headings . In addition to those we have already noted , there are the " Chemistry of Metals , " Poisons , " " Hippocrates , " " Physiological Chemistry , Chemistry of Food , ' * " The Laboratory , " " Chemical Manufactures , " General Science , " "A Chapter on Chloroform , " and an appendix , with a complete index . . In all respects , this new volume is equal to its predecessors—in some , superior , particularly with regard to the completeness with whieh the different topics are treated . Mr . Timbs has educated his readers , it may be presumed , to an advanced point and can now afford to deal with his argument in a graver and fuller style than formerly . Income instances , he has , indeed , been exhaustive . . We eommend this book unreservedly to the patronage of the public .
574 The Leader And Saturday Analyst. [Ju...
574 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . [ June 16 , 1 SOIL
Miscellaneous Books* Mhe Merits Of Mr. A...
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS * mHE merits of Mr . Abbott as a story writer are so widely known J- and appreciated , that we may predict considerable popularity for the " Stories of Rainbow and Lucky " among youthful readers . The srenial character , the natural action , and genuine tone ot truthfulness and humour which characterise these stories , are the sources of their power to please and interest . There is , likewise , the great charm of instruction as well as amusement in these tales , yet the instruction is so skilfully interwoven with and subordinated to the purposes of amusement , that the young reader will imperceptibly , and without the slihtest disposition to reject it , imbibe thehne
g ^ moral lesson which they inculcate . No one is conscious of the presence of the oxygen while he inhales and is invigorated by the air he breathes . In this , manner does the clever storyteller , while he endeavours to amuse and delight , mix up with his narrative wholesome and pleasant draughts from the cup of justice and humanity , and put in this way the instruction is highly acceptable , and of course makes the narrative very popular . Finding as we have said , this method of teaching successfully adopted by Mr . Abbott , we recommend the more confidently to our readers the little volume
of stories of" Rainbow and Lucky . . _ . As it-is superfluous to expatiate upon the merits of the " Vicar ot Wakelield , " tale which everybody reads , we have only to draw attention to the surpassing excellence of this edition of it by Messrs . Griffiths and Farren . It is printed and bound in the best style , arid the ill « strations _ by Mr . Absolon , the well-known and skilful artist , are deservingLof all praise . The . adherence to the letter of the first edition is also in character , arid is itself a decided attraction . " The Dawn of Love " is an elegant little volume of ; sonnets , by Calder Eliot . They exhibit considerable elegance of diction and great delicacy of sentiment , and we have no doubt that their peculiar charm of music and sweetness of thought will gain for them much favour among poetical readers . They are dedicated to the surviving sons of Burns . _ , ¦• ¦ ,.,.. _„ edition of
Messrs . Smith , Elder and Co . have published a new the interesting story of" Kathie Brande . " This cheap edition of a good fireside history should find a large number of readers . " Pass and Classj" an Oxford guide-book , is an able and complete Irfctle ^ ork ^ n ^ he-eourse ^ f ^ dueation ^ no doubt , be valuable to the student on commencing his career in that great seat of learning . To others it will afford a perfect idea of the sort of training which a man undergoes in the Oxford Colleges , in order to fit and qualify him for eminent and useful positions in life . . ¦¦¦¦ ¦ * '¦ ¦ ' ; ' ¦ ' . ' ¦ . .. " ¦ ¦ We have received the second edition of " The Divine Life in Man , " consisting of a series pf sermons by the Rev / James Baldwin-Brown , minister of Claylands Chapel , Clapham Road . Thesa sermons are characterized by a healthy religious spirit , and great earnestness of thought and purpose . '¦ . ., . »\^
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE . SPECIAL Hanoveb , June 12 tb , 1860 . THERE are certain indications of a strong divergence of opinion in the Liberal party , or rather say liberal thinkers of this country—a party in the English sense does not exist . Wo may be said to have now two sets of thinkers or wishers : the one , which I wiay term Unionists , the other Guild-abolitionists . The Unionists would have a union by any means , —war or revolution ; the Abolitionists care not so much about a nominally political union of allthe States under a central authority as the abolition of all restrictions upon labour , trade , and settlement . The sentiments of the Union-
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* Stories of Rainbow and ImoTcv . { Selling IaicKi / . ) By JACOB Abbott . London : Sampson Low , Son & Co . The Vioai * of' Wakq / teld . ATalo . By Owvbb GOLDSMITH ..... With Illustrations , by Jontr Absolon . London : Griffiths and Farren . Tlie Dawn qfZove . By Oaldbr Eliot . London : James Blaekwood . Kathie Brando ; a Fireside History of a quiet Life . By Holme Lee . London : Smith , Elder & Co . ¦ ' Pass and Class . An Oxford Guide-book , through the Courses of Littoroo Humaniores , Mathematics , Natural Science , and Lair , and Modern History . By Montague Burrows , M . A . Oxford and London : J . H . and Jae . Parker . The Divino Zffe in Man . By JAMfes Bau > win-Brown , B . A . London Ward & Co .
ists were expressed in the extract which I gave last week of M . yon ; Bennigsen ' s speech in the Hanoverian Chamber ;—those of the abolitionists are that the idea of a union by violent means is altogether chimerical , and that the efforts of the Liberals ought to be exclusively directed to the abolition of the guild regulations , the passport , system , and the introduction of what they term " Freizuegigkeiti" that is , the right of settling in any country of Germany without naturalisation cr permission of the authorities . I must confess the abolitionists have my sympathy , for they have a tangible object in view , and have already effected several breaches in the guihland police system . It is a question , too , which goes home to the great body of peasants and mechanics , who can easily comprehend it , and therefore come forward in support of it . The Association
Unionists , as represented by the National , can only obtain adherents among the rich and educated ; the common people hold aloof with the most phlegmatic indifference . Of this the Unionists loudly complain ; but what can be expected when the German working man is under the tutelage of the police in his own locality , and finds himself treated like a foreigner in every other locality of the Vaterland ? The great Union question is not a personal affair , like the right to move , settle , and trade . Even if the union could be effected as the National Association desire , it could be of little benefit to the people , unless the whole system of local legislation were overthrown * unless the shackles were completely cast off which tie the German to his native place . The cry for a United Germany resounds from all sides through the press , but , ridiculous enough , those persons who exclaim the loudest against the selfishness of the princes , because they will not sacrifice their hereditary sovereignties for the general welfare , are themselves possessed of the
most impolitic and unsocial of privileges . The writers of Germany are constantly bewailing the unpatriotic readiness with which a German throW 3 aside his nationality and becomes an American , a Frenchman , an Englishman , or Russian , as the case may be . But what right has Germany to claim the love , and perhaps the blood of her sons , when she denies them the common rights of man , the first conditions of social existence ? If they were excluded from such rights and conditions by all the rest of the world , it would be another matter , but they can obtain them freely in greater , wealthier , arid more powerful countries . Those rights of man which are denied to the German in his own country , he can have even in that country of France which his tyrants would teach him io hate and fear . The German can freely range from one end of France to the other , and settle whereyei * he thinks he can best gain his livelihood j there he can buy and sell ,. " there . i lie can own land , and there he can marry without an insulting police certificate , which is more than he can do in the freest localities of his Vaterland . The instinctive
desire to found a home , and freely gain his bread by his own unfettered labour , must be nearer and dearer to the millions of Germany than the more ideal wish of a united Germany and the retention of the Rhine provinces . The journals are constantly whining about the never-ending stream of emigration to foreign lands , where Germans amalgamate with the people and are for ever lost to Germany , but few trouble themselves about the self-evident remedy , But though the press—fearing the loss of siibscribprs , the generality of whom are guildsmeri , and other privileged persons—is silent upon the subject , the abolitionists are up and doing , and mal » ng-prepftrations-foi ^ lieii ^ grand-mecting-in ^ lie ^ utumn . _ llllito meetings have lately been held by them , one at Freiberg- and the
other at Gotha , at which it was resolved to agitate chiefly for the abolition of all restrictions upon labour and the right of settlement . The renewed activity of the National Association , which aims at tlie annexation of all German countries to Prussia , and is consequently a direct attack upon the princes , has called forth new measures of repression oh the part of the Hanoverian and other Governments . I hear that the police have been making inquiries among the booksellers as to the persons who have subscribed to the weekly journal of the Association . Hitherto the Hanoverian authorities directed their attention only to those who were mernbers , they will now make it criminal to read the proceedings . Instructions have been issued , it is said , to all the post-office authorities of the kingdom , to ascertain how many copies of the journal in question pass through the post-office , and to take note of the parties to whom they are addressed . The upshot will be the refusal of t ) ie post delivery , as the sale of the journal cannot be prohibited without a
breach of the law . The exasperation against M . Von Boriuks has been still more increased by his elevation to the rank of " Count . " It has been regarded as a defiance to the whole of Germany , that is to say , always , the rich and educated classes , and the outcry is terrible . The Minister , however , takes it very easy , dines at times with his royal master , attends meetings , and makes very loyal speeches , as if he were the most popular , instead of the most detested person in the kingdom , and indeed in all Germany . He seems to know perfectly well thnt the opponents of himself and his master are mere writers and gossips , that the great mass of the people , the common people , the thews and sinews , not the tonguca of the country do not care a fig about what he says or does . In a late debate upon thecivil list ; a groat number of arbitrary purchases of private property with State money were brought to light . One of these , a bold counterpart to the Deister mine affair , excited considerable sensation . It turned out that the Minister of Finance
had expended , the sum of 41300 thnlors for premises to serve as Government offices , when a similar sum had been obtained in a former . session for the selfsame purpose . The excuse was , that the building had been , lot by the Government to the English Charge " d'Affaires , as it was found to he unsuited for the object at first required . M . Von Bbnniqsbn opined that probably the premises
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Leader (1850-1860), June 16, 1860, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16061860/page/18/
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