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Nqvebijber 19, 1853] T H E L E 4. D 15 R...
NqvEBijBER 19 , 1853 ] T H E L E 4 . D 15 R . . 1121
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Critics are riot the leAislator 8 , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—they interpret ahd-try to enforce them Edinlurgh Review .
Christmas Always Intimates Its Approach ...
Christmas always intimates its approach by literary prognostics , and " coming events cast their Almanacks before them . " This coming season does not promise to be so rich in gift books as the previous years , but Punch's PocTcet Book shows its old familiar face , with Leech and Tenneil humorous as ever . The Pocke t Booh lias fallen off in its literature , but maintains its position as a compound of the useful and agreeable . Other Almanacks claim attention—the Irish Exhibition Almanack , the Magazine of ' Art Almanack , the Emigrant ' Almanack , the Almanacli pour Mire , the Almanach de I'Illustration , the Almanack Comiquealmanacks for every taste and every purse .
The First Volume Of Dr. Veeon's Msmoires...
The first volume of Dr . Veeon ' s MSmoires d ' un Bourgeois de Paris turns out to be more amusing than we anticipated—indeed , it is one of the pleasantest volumes of gossip Prance has sent us for a long while . Dr . Vbhon does not fill his pages with himself , but with his contemporaries ; and as his experience of Parisian life must have been sufficiently curious and varied , in his avocations of doctor , director of the Opera , and editor of La Revue de Paris and Le Constitnttonnel , we may hope for more piquant details than could have been given had he made himself the hero of his book . As a sample take these two letters . Alexandee DtTMAS will be recognized in every line of the following : — "Ml Dear Veron , —This is the way men of talent work .
"I send you one hundred and twenty blank pages , every one of which you will have stamped by the boy in your office . You will return them to me on Tuesday morning by the first train . * ¦ ' You will find your volume commenced on coming here to dinner , Tuesday , the 14 th ; and I will bring you the volume finished on coming to dine witli you ' Tuesday , the 21 st .- —Ever yours , "A . Duhas . " This is the way Dumas -works : can you wonder at his fecundity P Nosr read this from George Sand : — " Monsieur , —You greatly pain me by asking for a volume a month sooner than our engagement presciibes . T . here is great danger to my health and to the merit of my book in working thus hastily , without allowing myself time to mature the subject , and to make the necessary researches ; for there is no subject so small
but requires much reading and reflection . It appears to me that you make me too much of a stop-yap ; my self-love is not wounded , and I have too much admiration and friendship for Eugene Sue to be jealous of your preference . But if you allow him the necessary time to dcvclope his long and admirable works , I aho must have time to polish my little studies , and I cannot undertake to be ready when the Juif Errant reposes . All that I can promise you is to do my best , for I have a sincere desire to oblige you . I say nothing of the unpleasantness of petting to work when I had reckoned on a month ' s repose , very necessary to me . I have already relinquished that idea , and have been at work ever since I received your letter , but how can I , in the space of six weeks , send you a volume which would satisfy either of us ? I do not think it to the interest of your journal to picas mo thus ; therefore am I somewhat angry witli you , although I do not refuse to do whatever may be humanly possible . '' Gkorgk Sand . "
i < ram a letter of Balzac ' s we make one characteristic extract . Tic had not long been married , and he thus speaks of his extravagance at Dresden : — "Oli , the lovely thingfl there aro here ! I have already spent 25 , 000 to 30 , 000 franca on a toilette , which is a thousand tildes more beautiful than that of the Duche . sso de Parma . The goldsmiths of the middle ages wore very superior to ours , and I have discovered Rome magnificent pictures . If I stay hero , there will not be a farthing of my wife ' s fortune remaining , for she has already bought a pearl necklace which would drive a saint distracted . " Veron gives a curious picture of tho Ernpiro . Beauty was force , ho nays , and herculean proportions wore greatly esteemed—oufaisaitcas da larger , < < paul . es , ct dc r . wllcts luxurianls . Dunning was ho much " the %
go , that any man who could dance with distinelion was suro to gel ollico : under our An ink it M'aa verses which opened tho doors ol place . Perhaps , after all , there wan not so much diUereneo between the two . There are other details in ' V . huon ' s book equally curious , but nol e quall y to be cited in public journals . Vkuon nays , we know not ou what authorit y , that it is not true that Clir j tj . oti n invented the instrument which ffoo . s under his immo ; it was Antoink Loujh , secretaire perpotuel of the AccKhimie de ( J / rirurf / ia , who , in conjunction with a , mechanician na / med Soiimidt , constnictcd the first guillotine .
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" - is appreciable evidence of the growing importance of the Secuhirisl l ) 0 < ly , that a rooiilar publishing establishment should have been organised , ¦>¦ ¦ ' it has been by Messrs . Holyoa k . k , who ha . ve opened a shop in . Klcet->' ¦ ' '< : <>( -, , to meet tho wants arising from ,, success . . It 1 i ; i , h lately become morn than over necessary thai ; now ami unknown friends , j ' - 'i ; U , ( id p . i- ] i ; i , ]( H in i (! niol , o districti , oliouM be able to point to London , wliw'o a " ly known , aeocsniMo , evident , and recognised . ICHtabli . Hhment ; and rupn . 'Htint . ation . " . '' V '" | » h < oip * loH exists , whore their reference would load to tho illustration and ^ Kiicalu ,,, ^ of their viowi-i . . Besides , il ; is duo to tho extending influence of ^ Secular wV *' *** l ''' ' ( 1 - ' ° '' ° In << uiy l )() rrtollH wll () JIOW Htand . upon our nidti , and to others » J » honour tin with counsel to assume and miHtain an adequate position . ' Benefit ww accrue to indivi < hn , ln : uid to tho truth . " Suoh is tho object of this new firm . At tho close of the year , tho >» Nin « BB now earned ou by Mr . Watson will bo transferred to Messrs . "OLyoA KH .
Books On Ouli Table. Victoria: Lateaustr...
BOOKS ON OUli TABLE . Victoria : lateAustralia Felix . By W . "Westgwth . Oliver and Boyd Saunterhigs in and about London . By Max Schlesinger . Nathaniel Cooke Goldsmith ' s Essays . Nathaniel Cooke Boys and their Rulers . . - Nathaniel Cooke History of Alexander the Great . By Jacob Abbott . ' , . ¦ Nathaniel Cooke History of 'IVillium the Conqueror : By Jacob Abbott . Nathaniel Cooke ' Discovery . A Poem . By E . A . Leatham . Walton and Maberlv ' The Farmer ' s Assistant and Agriculturist's Calculator . By J . Greeve . « ¦ ¦ , ¦ „ . ^ 7 i t . ¦ 7 t , tt t , ¦ , Arthur Hall , Virtue , and Co . Cool-cry , Rational , Practical , and Economical . By H . Reid . W S Orr and Co Avillori i and other Tales . By the Author of Head of the Family . 3 vols . „ . „ , „ ,. „ , „ , / , ' Smith , Elder , and Co . JVittich 8 Income-Tax Tables . Lone-man and Co Clotel ; or , the President ' s Daughter . By W . W . Brown . Partridge and Oakey . Punch's Pocket-book for 1854 . JPunch Office " The Chemist . A Monthly Journal . No . II . . IIMiley ! High-ley ' s Library of Science and Art . Hijrhley ' Bohn ' s Classical Library . —The Works of Apuleius . _ . H . G . IJohn * Bohn ' s ' Ecclesiastical Library . —Socrates' JScclesiastical Hintory , jj [ q' Bojm ] Bohn ' s Standard Library . —The Works of William Cowper . Vol . 1 . H . G . Bohn " Chabneriana ; or , Colloquies with Dr . Chalmers . By J . J . Gttrney . jj lientley * Bentley ' s Railway Library . —Stella , and Vanessa . Translated by Lady U . Gordon . ]{ . Eentley . ' An Account of some Cases of the Epidemic Cholera . By P . A . Bulky . Hamilton and Co ! ' On the Living Language of the Greeks , and its Utility to the Classical Scholar . By John Stuart Blaskie , F . K . 3 . E . Sutherland and Knox . Bentley ' s Monthly Sevicxv . No . VII . J . Bentley and Co . Poems . By M . Arnold . Longman and Co " . Caroline ; a Franconia Story . By Jacob Abbott . Ward and Co . Stuydcsanf , ; aFranconia , Story . By Jacob Abbott . Ward and Co ! Clerical Education . Blackader and Co ! "Strikes , " Viewed in Relation to the Interest of Capital and Labour . By H . Dunckley . Hall , Virtue , and Co
Choleha And Its Treatment. Asiatic Chole...
CHOLEHA AND ITS TREATMENT . Asiatic Cholera ; its symptoms , pathology , and treatment . With wJiich is embodied its morbid anatomy , general and minute , translated from a 2 ^ aper by Drs . lihein-Jiardt and Leubusclier . Ey Ivickard Harwell , late House Surgeon , and now Demonstrator of Anatomy at St . Thomas ' s . ChurcLull Thoughts on Cholera . Ey Edward Kcarne , formerly House Surgeon to University College Hospital . GLmicliili . We do not usually notice medical books ; but cholera is so much a topic of general conversation , no less than of pressing importance , that we may overstep our limits , and call attention to 3 Ir . BanvelFs excellent and sucfgestive "vrork . ~ Mr . BarTTcll commences hy enumerating- tlie iacts . irliicli force the conclusion , that cholera is . an epidemic , not n contagious disease , dependent for its manifestation on the-presence of a certain physical nidus , not on that moral nidus of sin and heterodoxy which jEdinburgh Presbyteries , and . other extremely foolisli sections of mankind , -vvonlcl liavo ' us believe . If it is a scourge , and if the " finger of God" is visibly directing the scourge , the plain experience of 1845 , 1848 , and 18-53 is , that vengeance has local partialities : — ' Tims , however powerful and virulent the cholera , poison may be , it really seems that the constant local evils are necessary for its' development and action and that , where these social cesspools do not exint , there the disease ia powerless ; as German niystic tales make the hero unassailable by the fiend , until some fault of the man has given power to the demon . "
This is something grimed : a direct starling point for all men . As old Cromwell bade his soldiers trust in Providence and keep their powder dry , so a modern ruler answers Edinburgh supplicants—" Pray , but clear your pig-styes . " We learn , also : — "It appears , then , that cholera—or rather that , influence which produces cholera—travels from East to "West ; that nlone it cannot produce the disease , but that it must also bo aided and abetted by some local conditions , which , on theii part alone , would produce diarrhoea ,, typhu . s , or intermittent fever , as the case may be ; but whether epidemic cholera be caused by the operation of a mixture of these two influence ::, or whether the cholera inihienee produce that malady by operating on a system well prepared for the attack by a typhus-fever-producing cannot bo is it of
condition , now judged . Nor great importance ; the material point being , that wo can estimate- the amount of epidemic force in any part of England , by studying the returns of deaths in those parts , from zymotic diseases ; that when theao gradually go on increasing 1 for a number of yearn , and when all disease more and more incline towards u low , malignant , character , then may we suppose that a time is approaching when some great epidemic sliall . scourge the land . YVlien we find , moreover , : in in . London , that all diseases have , in about , the last twenty years , .-i-ltered considerably in character , and deviated ' from the previous fifchenic , to a debile asthonie typo , so that , the treatment ; of many such lia . u lately become stimulant , instead of a . ntiiildngistic-tlien may w « justly conclude that something in our Hanitary arrangements is grievously wiunft for which , Hooncr or later , tlie population must sutler . "
After detailing in a nin . 'ilerly manner the premonitory . symptoms , and the A arious cfiiiHOS of Cholera , Mr . . 1 Jar well thus suin . s up : — - " ( Jhohu-ii ., tl : en , i . s a malarious disease , of an irregular intenniLtont ty [) e , tlio cold lit being no violent , as to form the most fatal pari ; of Mie nial .-i , dy , ami to take th « most ]> rominent place , in all deseriptionK , and all our ideas of tlio . diHea . se . " Jnto tho ( picstion of tn ^ atnuuit wo will not enter : it i , s n point Ixn'ond our jurisdiction nltogether ; but weirmy note , that Mr . . l > ar \ vdl is decidedly op ]) ORod to th ( i popular " challc mixture . " "Thus , the prescriptions should l > e aromaf . ic , stimulant , and astringent , and not ,
Kuoh as inonily clog the bowclH by ;> , Ht ^ mi-nieelianieal a < : ( , ion , li ! u > elialk mixture , to which there are in ; i , ny objeetioiiH , particul . 'trly in tho form ofdimxi . se now undci oonsideration . Of all medicines in tho . I'lmnnucopniia- thit ; is abonL the chininicnt . It , may ]> lug the bowels fora timn , hut then i . s , by its ir . ritation , jinttty sul-n to in-Iikso a second unhealth y form of diarrlura ., nuarly as bad ; i , h the lirnf , ; or , if it do not stop tho dia , rrh ( n : i , at ; once , w p < M feetly detain to inalve it wonxi , by iiaiig iu ^ j among the villi of tho intestine " , iind Iceejiing ii [> a , constant , irritation . Thorn i , s <| uil , e enough < : ha , lk for : uiy useful purpoHo in ( . lie aroinidio eonfoelion , and that , amount ; is the utmost , which , according to niy experience , is likely to benefit the piitieiit . " of
Ii ] lsowh < ni rcicordin ^ ihn result oI ) M ( v rvatioii . s , lie says :- - " When mioMt . remedie ! iei » j . » I «> y «< l ' i : id been found of littlo eMicacy in oombn . ting the di'ieaHe , iui < l wlion many that , jmivious to tlie invasion , had been < jujto petted ; i , n < J ( iiilogised liy different , doctor" as all but infallible , had been ( Uncovered l , o be perfcetly uiielesH , peojile began to look about ; tliemfor oLlior jneann , < 'in « l nianydi / riirent , nietliodn were atiempUul , and many ivninlii'H ailminiHU'rcd , merely bcc ; i , uso t , Ji < iy wore new and had not been tried before , while othorn were talc on into trial upon the r « - eonunvndation of continental physicians . TJmn niontmy , in hiryo and Minall d ji >;^ ' ; ' ojutjin in diiforont wayti ; Iwandy , emetics , tuilijuiH , chloroform , turpentine
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1853, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111853/page/17/
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