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Sport In India* I T Is Seldom That They ...
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¦ m ust quote , " The flesh of the bear , " says Captain Shaltespear , " is , I believe , not at all bad eating-, owing : to the animal being- a clean and sweet feeder . The lower class of fche natives , who live in the jungles , used invariably to carry aw ; ay all the flesh when I killed one . I never couid bring " - myself to try it , as when the animal is skinned , he look * like ahuge and deformed man , with immense muscular arms and short leg- ? . The Mussulmans call him Adamzad , from his likeness to Ad mi ( a man . ) " . . , And yet lie could shoot or spear him | So ludicrously inconsistent are moutals- —so different are feeling and judgment .
Buffalo * , wild elephants , the bison , deer , and other miscellaneous animals , find their appropriate places in these pages . There are are al $ o . important remarks on the breeds of horses used in India , The author has had a practical aim in all he has written . It is his opinion that , in the late mutiny , many a chivalrous gentleman might "have preserved their lives if they had been properly acquainted with jEhe use of their weapons , and accustomed to handle them , as \ irell as nVanage jtheir horses at speed . Courage without skill will noi , avail in ' the lioiir of danger . To those who wish to acquire the Requisitei skill tlie present work will be invaluable .
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SWITZERLAND * T ITTLEnew can be said on Switzerland , it might have been J-J thought , previous to the publication by a lady of what-she had herself observed of life and manners in " the cottages of the Alps . But female tact and discernment are nice and subtle , and perceive delicate shades , of character and conduct , that the sterner sex too frequently : overlook . Changes , too , have been made by time . These changes have even been pleaded , as our authoress tells us , against the project of writing a new history . The people are no longer , say they , what they were in the days of chivalry and romance , but " have degenerated into mercenary speculatists and plodding tillers of the soil . " - Barring the degeneration , may we not consider this new phase as having a peculiar interest of its own , and one well worth analysis ? Let us , therefore , follow in the lady ' s —fox ^ tepsrimd-partflker-heF-obsemition ^— , _— ' .., . , ., ^__ . _^^_ rw little incident shows how well this lady was qualified for a
traveller . When in the canton of Schwytz , our authoress took the fancy to pass incognito , converting- her name ( what is it ?) into a German one , by the addition of a syllable , and speaking- the language of the people as well as they could . " If Germans , " says she , " did not understand us , they concluded it was because we were Swiss ; arid if the Swiss did not understand us , they concluded it was because we were German , or from some outlandish corner the dialect of which they had . never heard . " This free and easy method of intercourse added to the amusement of her adventures . and
The lady makes some judicious remarks on hotel expenses , especially in relation , to the IVinkgeld , which serves as a source of fraud . Englishmen , too , are overcharged on system . But these , she adds , 'nr e the sins of an individual , or a class , and not of the whole people ; and lately there have been formed' associations among hotel-keepers to ; prevent fraud and exaction . There ia nothing demanded by the Government for passports , and postage and telegrams are cheaper than in . any other country of Europe . Neither in diligence nor railroad is any one allowed to smoke withou ! l the , consent of the whole company , and the facilities for travelling- with spued and comfort we carried to the greatest possible
perfection , . , . . , ,. _ . Costume , like customs , it appears , has much altered , the Swiss now , dressing , much lilte other . continental p eople . But " the ancient spirit is not dead . " Our authoress , who is evidently an American , i * ec , p , gniso 8 } ij without reservation .. Sho , of course , alludes to the recent " annexation of Savoy , and the neutral portion on tho Lake of Geneva , » nd notices wit ^ h becoming scorn tho ridicule indulged in by some ' journalists ' ' » £ ' the thought' of Switzerland as « erting and defending' her rigUte ; with her limited territory iuld JUnltod .. means . In *\ Ja fdal ' r IsCviirftflnnil has never known what failure meant , and do
there V « 9 vea ^ bh why she Should how bo . Qur authoress had rouny a conversation , phe pays , " with the most mercenary and timeserving ; of her people , and verily believes there is not one who would not suqr / fice ' uie Jaafc centime for . her glory . " She adds that ; •' whichever o ? the Great' Power ' s begins a contest with her will find itriiai ' ei ^ niiVaW ^' Tor . thouKh in any times conquered , she never has been , ^ nd ' never ; will beI sabduod . " , ¦ < in an appendix , our traveller has been at the pruns of collecting :
a complete though succinct history of Switzerland , from the early times to the present . In this , as in the remainder of the work , she as done her spiriting featly . Altogether , the present may be accepted as a standard production on the highly interesting subject to which it is devoted .
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Pentateuchism,* W Hat We Have To Say Abo...
PENTATEUCHISM , * W HAT we have to say about the " History of the Creation and the Patriarchs , " will necessarily be very little- The oldest and . most beautiful scrap of history in the world , whether sacred or profaue ( we use these words advisedly , in opposition to some philosophers who assert that history has no such distinction as is understood by these terms ) , we cannot Lut hold , in the highest respect and reverence , and still affirm its intrinsic excellence aud general authenticity , in spite of the rational scrutiny and logical analysis to which it may be subjected , either by the earnest thinker and seeker after truth , or by-the hostile and doubting critic . The spots on the sun do not sully or diminish his glory ; the stubble-field does not detract from the majesty of the forest hard by ; nor , to our thinking , do the apparent discrepancies or omissions in a brief historical narrative which records in solemn and sublime language the creation of the earth at all reduce the value of the whole . Indeed , we think that
the right feeling in regard to it is that of gratitude that the hrst chapter of Genesis has been preserved through the non-printing and unlettered ages of the world , and handed down to us , complete as it is , for edification and instruction . We do not , however , object tp candid and just criticism upon any subject , let it be ever so thoroughly and searchingly conducted . On the contrary , we like it , for we remember the sayings of wiser men than oursehes , which go altogether to countenance and encourage a spirit of five inquiry in the pursuit of truth . Hear both sides ; prove all things ; love light
rather than darkness ; let truth and falsehood grapple : who ever knew truth put to the worst in a fair aud open encounter ? Such a spirit as this , as it is the only hope and assurance of the world ' s progress and thorough freedom and enlightenment , we wish , above all things , to foster and strengthen ,, Human perfection , if it is ever accomplished , will , under Divine Providence , be brought about by human intelligence . A city full of people-are not the less responsible and active because their forefathers lie all in their dust in the city churchyards j neither lias truth , real , absolute truth , suffered one bit because of the refutation and abandonment by us of the old systems and
opinions ot mankind . But to return to the vrork before us . We have-already hinted that we have neither the inclination nor the space at present to discuss the" critical opinions and- conclusions of this work . It is an auonymous production , but we do not mention this as an objection to it . The readers of the work , however , will have very little trouble to form their own opinions upon its merits , as the author is not at all ambiguous in the statement of his opinions . It should be our duty to welcome every ray of light that can be thrown upon so important a subject as the History of the Creation . But a great and true critic , while he seeks to rectify or explain an acknowledged historical statement , will never . wilfully level a blow at the vast facts themselves , whether moral , spiritual , or scientific , upon which that
IFfirteTrreTltT ^ tlim ^^ — -It—must—be admitted that the highest and the worthiest exercise of human reason is to elevate what is low , to harmonise what is incongruous , and to solve what is perplexing . If , therefore , we were to criticise what has been said and done in the past , with a view to harmonise and explain , and not to denounce and depreciate , there would , we think , be less discordance of opinion and hostility of feeling amongus than there is . Perhaps , in our modern breadth of philosophical inquiry and freedom ot research , our criticism of the past becomes too loose and negative in spirit to do all tho good which it otherwise might acViieve . It certainly is not wise , though it is characteristic
of modern criticism , to judge antiquity by the purest and highest standards of religious and scientilie truth which prevail among us . A few defective or unintelligible sentences of an inspired penman , or a few unworthy acts of an individual otherwise esteemed for his goodness and piety , are certainly not sufficient to cast distrust over the whole record of the one and disgrace upon the whole character and reputation of the other . To persist that they are , is , we should think , the height of folly . We , therefore , maintain that , with all its supposed imperfections or discrepancies , tho , Mosaic account of the creation and the hitman wiee as contained in the Book of Genesis , is , beyond all question , ail invaluuble and transcendent chapter in tho history of the world .
Health Anp Long Life.F This Is A Complet...
HEALTH ANp LONG LIFE . f THIS is a complete and most useful little work upon a 6 ubjoct of ; the first importance to every pei-Bon , To know anything well is to know its cause . If , therefore , wo ascertain what is the cause of disease , or what shortens life , wo may possibly have in our own hands either Urn prevention or tho remedy for it . Thoy who are happy . iu , the enjoyment of health will , by attending to the pructical obwervutiyiiB in tho work entitled " Health and Long Life " both preserve their health , aud prolong their life ; while those who have unfortunately loat thut grcu , t boon will be greatly assisted in tho re-attainment of it by ^ he really pvaoticul tujtl wound udvice given in this work by Mrs . Epps .
* Tyiejiiatoru Of Tho Creation And The 1...
* TyieJIiatoru of tho Creation and the 1 ' atriarcfnj or , J ^ entatcuvhism Analytically Treated . Vol . 1 . Tho Book of Genesis . London : John Ghaphah . ' f JXtalth and Lotto Ufa , with practical Olecrvatlona , By B . ErPS . London' V I'ljier , fltopuonsoh ; and Bnenco . ' ' ' •
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Leader (1850-1860), May 26, 1860, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26051860/page/18/
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