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We vflrmv ratteatioa iast mask > to a . striking paper in the Mevue des Deux Mondes on the " Zouaves . " That article , it appears , has xlpawn down upon the Revue an official censure , although in its rapid and animated picture of the ^ exploits of those sfaumgeandbrilliant : troops , wMteibe . names of Lamobiciehb , Cavaig-nac , andVBBDBAU are B « eeasarily prominent , even ; the i » ifeBiorf * erTieestof yGam » obkbt and- ^ jTvABNAiiD are not slighted . It is undexstood Uutb the a » ticle ,- < signeid ! by M . WsxmtBZsm Mj & xsi director of theiRe-Tiew , ^ bovwas also the * i gner of tkeiairfiales onrtfee FTeachjnavy , contributed Isy . tbe Princede Joihvxumb , isidaetoQtheTpen- oftthe . Ducd'Awmaxe . iHeaee tke * ausoeptifcility « f a ' . Gorernment-Tiiiich , > albeit founded on " the * aati © nal VUT > " > aad : aastaiaedi > y- " eight millions of votes , " is : afraidjo'fcamaxticleJn a ^ eviewr ; an axtioleuwitker political'norvpoleniical , bat sieaply-tkongi justice Tto ^ tb ^ 'eooled = gea « als of-l ? ratM ^ ^ of the allied armies before Sebastopol .
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^ MB . SIEK BXTOKINGH ^ M . y ^ M ^ ogv ^ y ^ f ^ imes lSlk ' ^ McHn ^ ham , "VTols . I . and . II . ^ Xongman . ^»« wpro * efaed tibesevrokunes an .. a spirit , of . the ? most . perfect impartiality tow *^ Jtbesjmthor : and 1 ibe roiaofttiieHa . A ^ -eJ * ad ; eyei ? y . thiog to karn on ,. the subject of Mr . Buckingham , and had notprevious enmities or prejtidieesr . to ^ frover beforevjfe could fairly begin . - In his public capacity V-einew that fie ha & founded a species , of club under the name of the British and . Foreign Institute , ^ hatie and Mr . 'Punch had ' quarrelled , 'that in early life he'had been a greatixaveHer , and that he : had started a literary- newspaper ^ whieh was ^ failiiiJeuniishands , and which becameagreat -success initAefcands of Athens . Thraceour knawlfldge . of MT . ; BuckinghaHi ; : in his public capacity astepncd . Injhisi . injivate eapacity , we * had no ^ knowledge of him , at . all . to Jiad the him
Js » a » ta ) f ^ - * wje ^ ad . nevfir advantage of exhauging a word-with ; « nd we did . not even know what he looked like . Imagine the eagerness with which , we opened the- two first vdlumes-of' his Autobiography ; the fevw ^ im patien ee ^ ith-which -m 3 trimmed our midnight'lamp , bound a wet * o ^ l > T 6 inia > o * rr foreheads , and rplaaged into -our ^ reading . " Come ! " we eac < iiujBie \ fe . to ; onraeliwBs , joyfully ,- " , let u & tengage . in . the most meritorious of ^ lflt 9 jro p * ti « BS--riet , « s en iaige . theerr cl e of our ] aiowled ^ .. by . making . ourwlji ^ iamaiwlyiacquainted ^ viUi Mr .., James Silk-Buckiftgham . !" i ^^ j *^« i ^ t > iie « wroii giend--7 that iis ! too 8 ay , we did notrfeegin with Mr . fflmikmg bvnT * S'a : baby , it > ut < with iMr . Buckingham at mature years , , as represented in his porbpahV «» front . of the'title-pa » e ofiVolume I . Judging ¦ fe v tthjs portrait , -w « figured to ourselves a . joHyTlooking old gentleman , whitedxairandwhiskersand Lexpression
w ' ith brisk eyes , rctrrly ^^ .- , a ,. ^ enera . on his face . as if he were anxious to reYresh himself by a . good sneeze , and had % oSlecL to accomplish " his purpose at , tlie moment . 61 opening his mouth to begin . " Ajocund veteran ^ we said , ** not easily put down' by aiiy force 6 £ words or circumstances ; not likely , to lose his way in the paths of this world € or want of asking it at , the . nick of . time of the ; best-in'formed people ; a man who has skipped jauntily through . tlie journey of life ; who may have occaaB io ^^ y . tire 4 < liis > travelljj | g « jcom , pani < ms . iQjpastYyears , but who was evidently jwwrvtiredJ & imself—such is : Silk Buckingham generally estimated by the mute testimony of his portrait . Now . let us , seo . how . J * ' e completes . the . outiiae '^ of the ^ actJXT & Sn . lns . Autobic ^ graphj / . ' '' m TExcepting the t great Lipsius who ,, as we are told on the authority of the Heverend'Eawrence Sterne , " composed a work the day he was born , '
¦ never heard of so remarkable a cMKl as the child Silk Buckingham . v He fee < " « n Hfe « n ' boarkl ship-at » ni « e < years-old , ! being then > as . tall ( he tells us ) , ijBdacof ififteen ^ in . Tjur ^ legenerate daya ^ fitrongantkan . young , men , of reighteeu , » imbJfi ( eaoughkto ^ se «« dwhand overhand . froorthe-ship ' s deck to the main-< op , 4 iftd . able . to . swimctw » milesAtaatretch . . Before he was nine years old Jbe had arrived at such perfection as a " Little Warbler of pious melodies , that he put down a riot of Cornish Methodists by standing on a sack of corn and sinking one > of Dr . . Watts ' a , hymns to the'Uifuriated multitude . At ' the same AenSe ^ age ^ borhaUalcaadyUed . local , opinion . on the .: hig h Tory iide on the «> ibjoct ; 6 f tltaFrtMichJRe v / sdution ; . nn ^ h wrl & l len so violently in love ,. that when £ he < 4 y ^ to £ JUis . < aiJ « Qti ( WJ 8 . J ^ dfaiul . waat ^ y t buned , ho . fUuigJiiiHaelfdcwvxi Mpon Lths > ignKV 8 t Mnd j ^ jied ^ theioankih i in vtocpid ile ^ pair . " She
earliest-<« MfVb «& ipe ibuww * niwe-y ««*» olid , ¦ " were tke'enterprisinff ^ the tievotkniaJ , the wynwathismg , ¦ rend'the wnatory ' . " " JEn rAftn » e « oe"to this hist " tend « ooy , " . we iims ' t-cotVfeasj ' to -haTtng-ftlt -a 'monfbtd » thir 8 t'foT -more ' -knowledge , and to fcaviirs saffei ^ d ^ hQ mtwit poignant'diattppomtmient-at'ftnding- that our author ' ( mn % er 6 ) did nbt go * ihto , particaiars . "This'faiiit oi , ight : to bo : amontietii in ithe . aaxt-edition . Wo should like to seo a now cliapter introduced , with Afcc UUe QCTte & ritiah & an Juan ; or ,. Vie Amemrs of Silk . Buckingham before "jp umS' Br . eecJieti . .. Until ; tliat scJUapter 4 s , writteo , wo object to the . AutobiojFWfry , A 31 i « MK » wpiete . ituthe most viateeesting ** nxl amazing passage of . the HIllMlllOviMkSjiU lirbuhiiHwifl- ' ^ ny detailed accoun bjofi ouriimprea » iansi of UttloiBuxskiaghAW , —tJIwniiwwi ¦ nwxfiiHj instrwcted on'tlte subject of hisi infant gallantries , we MU i «) p * ly-wn" * fcfttfiUtlMMigh he :, 8 tirike 6 ' « 3 in-diilcbkood as ' being < x
compo und of the characters of Orpheus , Hercules , and Lothario , we are not at all surprised to find that his mother was willing to lose so remarkable a p henomenon for a month or two at a rtime , by letting her son go to sea at the age of nine years . Your prodigious children are very delightful to read about ; but somehow they don't do nicely in the nursery . An enterprising devotional , sympathising , amorous boy , ^ fifteen years or so in advance of his own age , is , as some coarse-minded people wouldsay , a boy to be got rid of any how . Being too refined to go that length , in the way of expressing ourselves ; -we * willonlyrrepeat . that * we think MivBuekingham ' s mother wi « qiiite > r % ht ! when-sheialloived . herself tobe . prevailed on to send him to sea . . jOf aur hero as : a y . owng man we learn much that is wonderful and inte - resting , but our impression of him , on the whole , is , that he hardly perfonus in youth what he ( promise"d in . childhood . He does not appear before us in a sufficiently remarkable light as a man , p rincipally , we are quite willino- to
ibelieve , because he- ^ was so very marvellous as a boy . 1 he super human child who crushed ai « itiwith . a h " ymn , iand embraced a young lady ' s grave , tones . down into , an-ayerage nautical man of adventurous temperament . He sails .. hither . and thither ,. rises .. to be a merchant-captain ,, meets with odd characters , and falls into strange situations—but other men do that . He marries at nineteen , and writes uxorious verses of the penny-Valentine sort ¦ to his wife—but hundreds of'men do that also . He leaves the sea , fails in . an attempt -to -set up 'in ^ business , and , takes to-travelling with ambitious ¦ objects and new ideasrto coiHinuhicate ' . to the natives in'Egypt and Indiatb-uttother , men have run . that career . beforehand after . him . In-short , so far ias the . first two volumes of the Autobiography extend . our . knowledge of Mr .
: Silk Buckingham at present , the older he gets the less remarkable lie gets . 'If we might ' be permitted to use a common phrase , we should say that the first nine-years of his life seeni to 'have taken tire shine out of" all the i rest- ' of it . « However ,. we mu $ t : not bepremature : the two . first-published volumes of tthe . Autobiography only take us .. to .. the beginning of . Mr . . Buckingham ' s Indian experiences . By far the larger . half of his Life and Adventures is yet to come . "Who knows what surprises may not be in store for us ?—! what superhuman traits of character we may not be lucky enough to read about , wheawe get to Volumes ) IH . and FV . ? It will be no joke for Mr . Buckin ^ - ibjajm to . extinguishhis ' own boyhood ; butheisan *^ enterprising" man , and if the thing , can be do « e . at ^ all ,-Jie . is « certainly the person to do it .
"So much for Buckingham ! " in our capacity as students of human character . In our other . capacity of reviewers of books , we have a last word ortwo 6 fadvice"to offer to our readers on the best way of getting through the Autobiography . « If-they'wHl carefull y abstain from perusing any of the numerous . spedDaeBS ; Of bis poetrywhich the author inserts , and if they will good-rhumouredlyskip . their -way through , the prose , ; rather than critically read , through it ,, they may . extract plenty of amusement from , this book . It contains some curipus p ictures of manners fifty years since ,: some . good anecdotes tbld ^ in a livery . lhearty way , and some interesting travelling-adventures intheil ) esert , antion-ihe shoi-cs of-the Red Sea . These amusiu ^ passages must certainly ^ be sought out' through tnuTEh trivial , wearisome , and absurdly vainglorious writing ; buttweirepeat . that dexterous " skipping , ; and moderate patience on the reader ' s . part , will do , much . towards aaaking Mr . : Silk Buckingham ' s Autobiography ' s , moderately entertaining book .
Psychological Inquiries. Psychological.I...
PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRIES . Psychological . Inquiries : in a Series of Essays Intended to Illiiatrate the / Mutual Relations of the Physical Organisation and the Mental Faculties . By Sir Benjamin Brodie . Longman and Co We are somewhat backward in ournotiee of this work ^ which has already reached , ajsecond . editifl « l . ; . ta . < suc « essjffh ^ see ms _'; to imply an ^ increiisecl interest , in . the , public far speculations taking this direction / We < lo hot inean simply the direction of psychology , but of psychology based upon physiolo g y . The conviction is now becoming pretty general that the old methods of studying the philosophy of the mind are somewhat sterile of befound in h
results , and * that the only true basis of-such a science is to pysiology . ... ' Eoi \ event tUe taorough-goingnaetaphysicians , who believe that the mind is . an abstract " entity " . residing in some unexplored comer of the braii ? , and " playing upon ' . ' that brain ,. as a musician plays , upon a musical instrument , are forced , to confess that the state of the instrument and the number of its chords determine the music which it is . possible for the player to bring forth . In other words , the metaphysician feels that he can take few steps mrithoutitbTe aid of ^ the physiologist . Hence the numerous attempts iiiilate years to . illustrate the .: relations ! between bodily and-mental organisation . Sir Benjamin Brodie has brought his quota to the general store ; and the rapid sale of the first . edition , proves that his quota was not unacceptable . of current is
Nor , if wo measure it by the easy standard publications , us success undeserved . It ' is agreeably arid popularly written , . toiichcs onsubjects of universal " interest , such as Memory , Breams , Insanity , Instincts , Sl « ep , iFitveuolQgy , > the ! Mind in-Old Age , & c , and brings ' forward i ' nets and iUustroitiojas iwMUjyof Avhieh wUliba new-to the general reader . Hud the wouk . beensigned byaji unknown . name , this . praiao might , seem , ainjjlc ; but the name or Sir Benjamin Brodio awakens higher demands : reputation 6 bli < je . 'Psydhologicdl Inquiries is not a work e , qual to the subject , nor equal to what the author ' s-reputation leVl us to expect . It does not contain a single ; nawiidea- ; it does < not contain a single 1 important modification ot an old . i 4 ea ; , and itv / coutainsvsouije . ideas thatwe canuotthelp considering utterly erroneous . To . irive . our readors . a s >> eciinen of Sir . lienjainin ' s mode ot
philosophising when ho is in a difficulty , let the following sullico : —l olypes , if is known ,, may be divided into several pieces , each piece living as bctorn . ¦ Sir'Benjamin ^ eferring to this fact , says : " It is true that one ut our most celebrated modern physiologists , -from observing the multiplication ot polypi by thomere division of thesanimal , andfrom some other , circumstances , nas cowe to the conoluaion ^ that . the mental principle which presentsnfc » eli to our conceptions as . being so pre-eminently , above all other things iiv . naturc , oiw and indivisible , is nevertheless itself divisiblo not less than the « o > I ? £ fabric with which it is associated . " Now this is the difficulty—a dilliciity for one who holds the mind to be an " entity pre-eminently indivisible , bM not a difficulty for . the physiologist who holds the niiud to be sunpiy onu
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Leader (1850-1860), March 31, 1855, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31031855/page/18/
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