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rifle , the Whitworth rifle , and the Minie rifle , and the man is M . Minie himself . Redoubtable Bianchabd has been in M . Minie ' s workshop at Vincennes , where he teaches the famous Chasseurs the use of the rifle , and saw him there filing or forging in his shirtsleeves . Th ^ re was a little forge at hand , and on all sides were bits of armourer ' s machinery . The idea of attempting improvements in fire arms had struck M . Minie many years ago . He had begun by learning particulars of everything that had already been done ; he had also mastered all the details of the gunmaker ' s trade ; he had become a working man , able to carry out his own ideas ; he cotdd fashion every part ota , rifle . Louis Philippe had rather discouraged than encouraged him in his pursuit , and threatened the innovator with dismissal . Officials" BJ" resent the disturbance of familiar
rou" , says . ., tine . The man with an idea is avoided rather than courted , " Martyrdom and Minie had almost become alliterative companions ; Thus is it ever ! , \ r ~ , r ^ Napoleon the Third has acted better towards M . Minie than the citizen-king . M . Minie enjoys free access to the Emperor , sits down with him at the breakfast-table . On one occasion , when he sent a rifle to the Emperor , he received an acknowledgment in the shape of 20 , 000 francs from tlie privy purse . M . Minie is always the same man ; his idea is ever before him . The perfection of aims is the devouring passion of his life . Always attempting something new—always practising Ms arms , he may , any day , produce a great result . ; _ _ , _ Very interesting is the conversation that 13 . J . iiact witli iv ± . iu . Seek ithoweverin the book . -. * .. . / ¦ ' ¦
, , The story of the foreign legends of France-is next told . Trance had derived great advantage from the employment of foreign troops . In estimating the glory of the first empire , most writers have neglected the claims of foreign battalions to a large share of it . Of these the Swiss have been the bravest . At the presenttime Trance does not employ mercenaries , as in the days of Louis XIV . ; she has now oiily her foreign legions , which has won its glory in useful works , promoting Algerian colonisation . This legion has included French officers of distinction , and . among' these we . find the name of Canrobert . Thewholeipf this chapter merits careful perusal .
And how we meet the Zouave , with his bronzed features , his oriental gait , and his Turkish dress . His name is derived from the Arabic Zouaoua , the appellation of a valiant tribe , or rather a confederation of tribes , thai inhabit the most' distant passes of the Juxjura . Tlt 6 Zouaves origihaily consisted of Parisians arid natives ofthe ^ countrysurrounding Algiers , They soon began their exr periences ; for they had not been enrolled more than six weeks when the general in command included them in the first expedition to Medeah . They receivedtheir " baptismalfire"in the defile of Mouzain * a spot they were destined to . redden With their blood and makememorable by their valour . The Zouave costume is considered at the present mpihent by high military authorities as at once the most strikingand tte most convenient soldier ' s uniform in Europe . The Zouaves are remarkable in the thick of a fight ; -but they are equally so when carptpaigning , for they carry , but little baggage * andturn everything ontheirway to good account . They ? uXlO IV
cfc ^ C xlXOl ) -, 1 + cliVC MIA Vs » , IfUC'XJlfPU . tA / * VJ ^ " !^* , » , v *** fe ****** v ** vwj Y *~ y ——«« to have a Hprp \ risipn Of wood . With a few onions and some bacon soup isiinade . \ Tf there be inb wirie left ihe bread is soaked in coffee , iSpfrited and picturesque is the account given by . 3 . J . of the Zouave ., Scarcely inferior to it is the clia / pter on the Chas--seuira pf Viiiceniie ^; There is also an eminently characteristic and instinctive chapteron Marshal de St . Arnattd . ' Take a passage from ttis exciting section . ?• jit Vpuld b ^ impoaaiblo for the most skilful novelist , for the-. moat praotieed arid euocessful eliaborator of dramatic incidents to exceed in tragict power the effect ! De St . Arnaud ' s correspondence ha $ upon . the mind off 'thisi attentive reader . / With all the oharm of familial * plea : pantfieB-r-ungiairaed verdicts on men and events—x > layful endearments , realising most completely the strictly . private nature of these letters now is
given to the Vorld ^ thore a dark figura in the back-ground , to Wlwch the eye turns constantly . This figure—Bteuggling with , an inexorable diseaae , ' Mppliea hither arid thither by Q » ambition that kireiy no bounds ; heroically rising tp dp battle , ¦ with tlio livid hues of death upo » .. its , brow ^ -ris that of the Marshal . If in tlie early passages of his trei ^ endc > T ?' s story ^ here be points certainly blameabje—if , as oii slender authprityitis aBserted , he acted a poor part as the spy upon a voyal lai < Iy . i ^ if , jjjl D | edetubev i 951 > he earned tho eseoratioii of the Ifrenon . party against ^^ / vyb-iohi he aotea—wo ban harclly consent to bqai' evenifutlts so grwe iii . ^ iridj * h the presonp ^ of that death-bed after the groat Crimean viotoxyy No inan ever played * , but his story with a boxirago more poxistant , with ia pevseyerancje in the faoo of difflbultiee , jnorp herpio . He committed political errprq , from onp point of vievw ,
undoubtedly j bufcthe . oprreapondenpe , whipliwe have exainined al ; groat lpngth / and at which -vye are about ^ p take a paicting glance , goes to prove that these ' eijriprs were tUfe . effeot pf defective education and . fimlty logic , ai ? a npt o £ a ! cold ** bloo . decl jpbbing with the destinies of his country . We miiBt Ippk at tfte Miavsjbial as a . soldier , and , not a « a pplitioian . ffo disliked thq buain « s ^ i of the cabinet , and , longed for the military command' of JUgpriaj but when forced into the mintiauT ) he wonit to wqvIc r 4 lie bad , been accustomed to ldbow in the camp . He was , perhaps , a , kabrtfyr of a ferocious sta , mp , bull he played l $ i gamp whoxx Pranop w ^ ritpd , a sabreutv . He ini ' uso ^ hi * BP'jbfit and his pourago intp . every dopartsient . of thp pupho BerVwo with whioh Uo pftrnp in oontftpt . , Ho faped <\ wth witwput the inoyemenb of a musple , and snutohod , from , its ghftBtly fflngerB the latwrels that go ' to malso a jnarah » l > - « nd to finish thp ffguro of n , iftiljtary hero . He loved his country , aa . pvovy wian awwat lordt ] Ue ] lwdwhbro Wsgloiy grow ^ and : for wluqh his « ang 9 VB wore & OQUntK * ed , 3 ffe was an on & toepufeiUican , , rfpno « rwbreathed ;; bxit Up
was an open , even a careless foe . He attacked the Republic when it commanded the army iij which he served . He -was inexorable in punishing its extravagant defenders , when they fell within his power . He could never realise the picture of France at once republican and glorious . Whether this leaning from the Republic towards the privileged classes—towards a . strong and despoticgovernnient—bo eviderico of a clear mind or proof of a weak one , is a nice point ; but it is one beyond the limits of the subject with which we are dealing . Tha despotic side was natural to De St . Amaud ' s birth , his education , and
his profession . We now ; turn to the closing pages of this correspondence , with the remark , due to the Marshal ' s memory , that there is nothing in all these letters to prov-e that he was a dishonest politician , while there is copious evidence of the greatness of Ms soul and tlie soundness of his heart . He was a doting fath . er ,. a most attentive and tender husband , and a model brother . These may be minor qualities in the estimation of a public man according to some autliorities , but tc ai * e inclined to regard them as lights by which we are enabled to see truly the honesty of the minister and the merits of the soldier . "
Caustic , indeed , is B . J . in comparing , or rather contrasting the very different manners in which French officers and English officers are made . Loa ? i > Tuppingham stands as the type of the latter—rthe spoiled child of rank and wealth , learned in nothing , and misdoing everything that he attempts . The French officer has "been practically educated for his pxofessipri—can make his own clothes ^—can make his own bed . He sympathises with his men as a fellow workman . " You will find a lieutenant and a sergeant arm-in-arm on the heights of Boulogne , or drinking Lyons beer together at the Gran de Halte , or arguing warnily over a game of dominoes . On the inaxch you will see them chatting together . A French officerhas a polite word for every inquirer . " Mk . Jerroxd we take it , has written this book , to inflame Englandjvith a noble envy . France is a great military nation ; England may become so . This book has been written to show the way to . such a desirable consummation . '
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gig The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Sept . 22 , 1860
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A MAY GARLAND . * TH 12 work thu-s . entitled-. is , . . a-. ypliiine of poems bj a lady who yet rejoices in the ; spring- of life , and would cull on others to partake heryouthfulclelights . Her poems arc divided under several headsj namely , '' Religions and Moral Poems , " " Songs by the Sea , " " Shakspeare ' s Heroines / ' " Scenes and Hymns of Life , " ( ' Lajs of Love , " and" Miscellaneous Melodies . " There is much meiit in some of these effusions , and si tendency to finish , which we hope to see improve . At present her verse is faulty ; not alw . iys certain , of its feet . ' But there is fire and ambitioh . L « t us test her powers- '• With * one of her Shalcspeare hei-oines . We premise thatto her four heroines she has accorded ( Uflerently-coloaircd eyes . To Ophelia ' violet , to . Juliet blue , to pesctemona black , and to Violabrown . Well , we . will take her brownrejed beauty . . : ' ... : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ ' . ' . ' \ ¦ ' ' VIOLA . . : .. ' . ¦ . ¦ ¦ . * Oh she was rich in beauty ^ rarest dower Her chesnut hair was banded , in fair braids , j'rom her white brow ; and in long massy-vvavos Fell looped up > y ith a golden ari'ow there . . : . OEEer . spiritual brown eves Upturned , gazed in your facos as . softly tremUed The yielding lvrp' ^;' light . wii-o . beneath her flngors . The ripe carnation ' s mirrored lpvoliness Sutfused her snowy cheek and forehead o ' er : In . -her small ears were hung two matchless peai'ls , And mopred in safety on her heaving breast , A rich gold cross laid like 6 , chiirmpd barquo . Before her lay spme j > oems s \\ q had ponnod : Tuning lxor lyre she sung thoir nuinbera aweot ] y ; Then proudly shd looked tip $ and arched hor node To see if avight but silence was a listener ? ¦ MoJ'o-at- any rato is a comniancl over poetic diction . Those Ibur porti'dits , indeed , allow a gift of uuugihation ; iiutl . wo slxould think that in narrative poetry the authoress wovld suqceoA inclistrnguislnng charnofcex ' , C ) f , liqi ? lyrical and descriptive powcrpj the follpwing is u favourable speoiirieii : — . , ' ' ' STANZAS ... ¦ ¦ Oomposod while sailing up the Onvoll .. Sailing on the sapphiro sea , In this gay barque ' merrily ; While above us in its glee , Waves St . George ' s banner free ! J'lag of England's nobleat son . When will thy day ' a yrovk bo done P ^ promoat for the gppd to fjght ,-r-¦ ITorerapeti in the causa of x'ight , — Waving ; o ' er thy rosy daughters , Sailing o ' er those . summer waters : How thy red proea waveth high ! Up against thq oleav bluo elty ; Through the btwlfa of twinWing "owoi's , Thvough Hie . gveononanxoliod bowers } ¦ On wo go in plensuvo fretf , pirdTlllco in pur , liber )) y , .. , On tl > y -fcp . nlw , bo liJco t ' l ^ o BWno , GHenm old paatlod wttlJa eublimo ; Shadowing tho aimbeain ^' way , Dovrxx \ tx watex's far awtvy .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 22, 1860, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22091860/page/10/
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