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No. 414, February 27, 1858.] T H E __ iE...
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THE STUDY OF LIVING LANGUAGES. The Study...
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MR. GLEIG'S ESSAYS. Essays, Biographical...
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THE NATURAL SCIENCES. A Cyclopadia of th...
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GASTON BLIGH. Gasion Bliuli. By L. S. La...
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PUBLICATIONS AND 11EPUBLICATIONS. Some i...
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The Letters Of A Betrothed. The Letters ...
because she allows grass and flowers to grow on her surface ? I love you , my own . Ill that is strong , and deep , and earnest in my being clings to yours ; " . twined with it , lives in it . AU else is external , fleeting , evanescent ; that alone , with the love of ' God , is a part—the best part of myself . But we are led back to Paris salons : — We dined to-day at Madame E . de G—n ' s , and met more wonderful people . First there was Madame G . S—d- Cover her eyes , and nowhere and nohow else shall vou find in her , in one interview at all events , any evidence of the genius—more esnecially the order of genius—that distinguishes her . She is short and stout , with a large face , the lower part of which is very coarse , and it is but the eyes that are handiome and expressive . I noted her hands , which are remarkably small , and , ¦ oddly enough , are only wanting in flesh to make them handsome . She speaks little , and what she says is much more characteristic of plain strong common sense than of fancy or brilliancy , and her manners are perfectly quiet and free from affectationindeed from any peculiarity . A . Dumas was there ; very amusing , but I should say capable of being extremely overpowering . He talks incessantly , very loud , and with frantic gesticulations ; he knows and loves everybodj ' , and seems utterly deficient in not be familiar and demonstra
the tact that should teach him whom he may or may - tive with , or what subjects are permitted or inadmissible in general conversation . He ia exactly like a huge , boisterous , good-humoured Newfoundland puppy , let into a drawing-room to display his intelligence and accomplishments ; these , no doubt , are remarkable and highly amusing : but the result is , you feel that the witnessing the expenditure of this amount of animal life and superfluous energy produces a sensation -of fatigue nearly as great as if you had been going through the exhibition yourself . Finally , the marriage is to take place within twenty-four Lours , and there is not a blush upon the candour of the lady : — Child , I can neither rest nor sleep , nor eat ! I cannot speak nor write coherently . I feel like one taken up to Heaven unexpectedly , and dazzled and overpowered with the Sudden glory and happiness . This evening only—from what cause of delay . I Jtnow not—your letter reached me ; and as all attempts at sleep have proved vaLn , I got up with the first flush of the June sunrise to write to you . Is it possible , that , in another week , you will be no longer a recollection but a reality to me ? that the spirit I feel hovering near me will become embodied , and that my senses , as well as any soul , will be cognisant of your presence ? This is a charming book , very original , very amusing .
No. 414, February 27, 1858.] T H E __ Ie...
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The Study Of Living Languages. The Study...
THE STUDY OF LIVING LANGUAGES . The Study of Living Languages . By Colonel A . Cotton . Scottish Press : MadTas . This little book is a timely contribution to the requirements of the day , clearing off as it does sundry superfluous difficulties from the study of living Indian languages , pointing out the objects which should really form the student ' aim , and indicating the means whereby they may be most ^ effectually attained . The author starts from the principle that a thorough familiarity with the tongue as sjioken is tlie real desideratum for an Indian interpreter , that philological refinements are a very secondary consideration , that even the faculty of reading is of minor importance as regards languages which possess no books that deserve to be read . He points out the error heretofore generally committed of studying the said languages on the classical system , and calls attention to the fact that the chief peculiarity of Oriental tongues , arid their greatest difficulty , consists of their extremely
idiomatic character , and the peculiarities of their pronunciation . He consequently lays it down as a rule , that sucli languages must be learned by the ear rather t han by the eye , and by means of repeating over and over ao-ain after a moonshee—real , original native sentences , the weaning not the translation of which in English is to be impressed upon the memory . Colonel Cotton observes , that after deducting all technical , obsolete , and poetical terms , the actual number of words in common use among the natives la very small , so that a vocabulary of four thousand or five thousand words of all sorts would enable a man to make his way anywhere , and feel himself at his ease in conversing with the people , provided he could arrange them idiomatically and pronounce them aright . This can only be attained by practice with a native instructor ; no book instruction cam be more than a feeble auxiliary , and will often lead to false pronunciation , and to the habit of making use of English sentences in a native dress , which no native would Understand . Books are in the first start even obstructive to progress .
The Colonel suggests , that in the first place a certain number of the very -commonest words should be selected , « nd these combined in short sentenced , illustrating the inflections of nouns and verbs , and more especially the peculiar lormuluc of expression , which constitute the ' idiom' of the kin-« un » e . These words andthcir combinations having been once mustered , the pronunciation would most likely be correctly fixed , and , so to spenlc , the tongue of the student filed to the language he is to work upon ; the idiom would also , to a great extent , liavu been conquered , and further progress « rcatly facilitated by such particulars of grammar as arc , invariable and indispensable , the inflections , for instance , of nouns and regular verbs , being impressed upon the mind by vontinual examples , Beyond this , the siudy of grammar ia very little needed for a student who only aims ut colloquial fluency . There are plenty of ladies , for instance , who speak most impeccable French or English , who would be horribly puzzled to purse a complicated sentence . Practice alone 1 ms inudu them perfect , and what iuiuuui ¦¦¦¦
practice uoes in one case , practice , auya mu ^ , »»"' « - •« «•• »•• - •••> . •• When tho student has mastered his first butch of sentences , he will proceed to more words and longer sentences , until ho hns acquired ull the phrases required for conversation ; should he then choose to push hia studios further , he will find his work the eaaier for having laid so good a foundation ; while , if he chooses to content himself with the progress already inado , ho ¦ will , at least , bo a fluent speaker and good practical interpreter , which very ibw of the college * passed men' turn out to be . _ This little book may prove of great assistance to the numerous officers of ISntmU r < # iroehts ~^ stand that it does not profess to onablo a man to bo a linguist without trouble . It call * for at least as much industry as the old system required , but , by knocking off so much of the superfluous , which that old system involved , and limiting the objects of study to the really useful , it certainly will save a grout deal of tune , and the iutlustry applied will not be wasted in ranking ¦ acquisitions which turn out to be of no practical uae when Acquired .
Mr. Gleig's Essays. Essays, Biographical...
MR . GLEIG'S ESSAYS . Essays , Biographical , Historical , and Miscellaneous . Contributed chiefly to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews . By the Rev . G . R . Gleig , M . A . 2 vols . Longman and Co . Mb . Gleig ' s Essays have at least the merit of variety . They range from , the war in the Punjab to the struggles of the Puritans , from General Miller to natural theology , from military bridges to Dr . Chalmers , from military education to the wild traditions of Saxon Switzerland . In his dedication to Dr . Ferguson the author says : " You do not require to be told that they comprise but a fragmentary portion of the essays , good , bad , and indifferent , of which I might claim the authorship , for we are , I believe , the sole survivors of a little baud who in youth and early manhood wrote perpetually , " We do mot find that the papers now collected call for any special criticism ..
The Natural Sciences. A Cyclopadia Of Th...
THE NATURAL SCIENCES . A Cyclopadia of the Natural Sciences . By WiLIiam Baird . M . D . Griffin and Co . This volume forms one of an important 6 eries issued by Messrs . Griffin , the publishers of the excellent Encloptedia Metrqpolitana . It is the work of Dr . William Baird , of the British Museum , ' and is illustrated by a map , showing the distribution « f animals over the globe , and by a variety of woodcut illustrations . Dr . Baird has not pretended to exhaust his subject , since , as lie admits , the natural sciences embrace a multiplicity of objects so vast that the mere enumeration of them alphabetically would , occupy his entire space . His design has been , therefore , to present a succinct account of the most interesting ' objects in the animal , vegetable , and mineral kingdoms , explaining the various terms used by authors in treating of them , and supplying , in fact , a manual for familiar reference . . Keeping this plan in view , it was essential to condense the several articles , so far as was compatible with clearness ,
and a satisfactory statement of the particular science involved , and Dr . Baird has accomplished this with peculiar success . His book is in the form of an encyclopaedia , and is , of course , in one sense , a compilation , but many parts are written with much freshness and ease . In construction , the work differs in some notable respects from most of its predecessors , containing a dictionary of English terms referring to the scientific names as they occur . Some very curious and interesting papers are introduced , as Teratology , or the study of the abnormal forms of animals , or , as they are popularly called , monsters , a knowledge of those deviations from nature being , as Dr . Baird says , of great use in zoology . He has at present confined bis illustrations in this department to zoology , since the application of thorn to botany would have necessitated an inconvenient increase in the size of the volume . Like all the manuals in the series , this Cyclopaedia has been edited with the utmost care , and deserves to rank among standard works of reference .
Gaston Bligh. Gasion Bliuli. By L. S. La...
GASTON BLIGH . Gasion Bliuli . By L . S . Lavenu , Author of ' Eriesmere . ' 2 vols . Smith , Elder , and Co . Br those who read Eriesmere this new novel will be cordially welcomed . It posseses similar merits , with others which we did not notice in the author's first production . The story is related in the form of an autobiography , and , while the style is marked by frequent though slig ht affectations , a very fewpages suffice to create an interest which never once abates . Some of the characters are drawn with jrreat effect , Gaston ' s and Sylvia ' s especially , and
the impress marked by early education is discriminatingly preserved without : fatiguing moralizings . The romance is that of love , with a barrier against theliappiness of the lovers , and the author ' s contrivance to avoid conventionality will please those to whom the circulating libraries have brought all but satiety . There is often , too , much descriptive power , quietly and gracefully developed , and the composition , although elaborately quaint , is ol more thaii average merit . But that which is moat to be admired is the warm and tender portraiture of a . woman , Sylvia , the good and evil genius of Gaston Bligh . We have been interested in this novel , and believe that the writer is capable of advancing considerably further in his art .
Publications And 11epublications. Some I...
PUBLICATIONS AND 11 EPUBLICATIONS . Some important literary announcements have been made by Messrs . Longman and Co . —A Narrative of the Siege of Luck now , by Mr . L . K . Lees , the first survivor who has reached England ; a translation , edited by Mr . G . R . Glei-r , of Bniilmont ' s Life of the Duke Wellington ; the third volume of Hue ' s Cliridianily in China , Tartary , and Thibet ; the fourth and fifth volumes of Dr . Barth ' s African Travels ; the fourth and filth volumes of the New Edition of Bacon , ' by Ellis , Spedding , and Heath ; Mr . Uuy ward ' s Biographical and Critical Essays ; the sixth volume of Men vale ' s Roman History ; the fourth volume of Humboldt ' s Cosmos , translated under the superintendence of Major-General Subine ; and the hist volume of JLJunsen's great work on Egypt's Place in Universal History . From Mr . Routledge we havo the first volume of a new edition , to bo completed in three volumos , of a work already popular , The Rise of the Dutch Republic : a Uistoni , by John Lotlirop Motley , to bo completed in three volumes . It is we ' printed , on good paper , and ia a very acceptable
rcpublicntion . ... Messrs . Saunders and Ottley have issued a second edition of lour ajter Year : a Tale , by the Author of' Paul Furroll , ' and « IX . Ppeuifl by V . We havo from Mr . A . W . Bennett , successor to Messrs . W . and G . Cash , u second edition , revised and corrected , of The Campaner Thai ' , or , Discourses on the Immortality of the Soul , by Jean Tuul ttichter , translated from the German by Juliette Gowa . „ , , _ .. ~ -4 & essiv 3 .-J , ~ H , ~ nnd . a . ~ tfai ^ t lanes , by John Armstrong , D . D ., late JJwhop of Grahams town , e < Jif « d by the liev . T . T . Carter , Rector of Clewor , Berks . I ho Jtssaya originally appeared between September , 1840 , anil March , 10-19 , in three of tho leading reviews of the day . ' The volume is interesting , liistonuully , ana from its earnest and intellectual discussion of the social questions indicated by tho following titles : ' Female Penitents : ' ' The Church and her ieniale Penitents ; ' and ' Female Immorality —> ta C « u » e « aud Remedies .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 27, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27021858/page/19/
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