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circumference , which separates the American from the Canadian Fall , I made out nineteen isles and islets ; some no larger than a dining-table , others twenty or a hundered times as large , and several of them supporting but a single tree , and others two or ' _SS _^ _JS f _^^ tSSS _^^^^^ S that every moment would be the last both of them and their vegetation . " _Thehumansensesareincapableofcomprehendmg , the full glory oftheNia | ara spectacle _whioh might . indeed be cited as a sufficient proof to uphold the entire theory of the author of « Man and his or rather subjects . Theinadequacy of the human intellect to grasp ike Universe becomes in- the presence of " this great vision of the guarded" cataract a felt truth . This _. truth also may be appned with justice to the political and social relations of the country ; - perhaps of any country Dr . _Madcay strives to _imderstand and appreciate American institutions , still he _fmds there is much that escapes him . Me brings to bear his public experience on all these , andsofarashecancoinpareandcontrast , hegainsa certain satisfaction . Butthe absolute . aspects remain mysterious . There is the peculiar and unapproach- able secret that lies at the base of national or individual character which operates as the reason why the circumstances have taken a specific shape more or less anomalous . There is the bias of the apr ilL which nothing but the conscience can control ; _acSnscience which acts according to the degree in which it is _enlightened and which on its moral Sde can on v be enSe ' ned bVthe Seat sSrit _ciae can oniv _oe enugntenea Dy tne v _^ reat _opirit , _^ rhom even the savage , m the wilderness acknow- ledges , and whose influence is clainied ahke by Bamt and sage . Here at last we must look for the distinguishing characteristic ,, and must confess ourselves lost m wonder and in ignorance . : It is not possible to do more , at . _present , than antroduce Dr . Mackay's book io pui-readers . The topics treated in it _| e of too multifarious a _cha , _a-acter to permit of cursory survey , and each _^ ould furmsh matter for a grave _^ separate essay . We must Qontent ourselves _^ therefore , with com- mending these volumes to careful perusal , as pre- fientmg a body of Political Doptnne , illustrated by the author ' s experience of America , derived by lnm under favourable circumstances , tlie _^ result of careful and diligent observation , assisted by per- _sonal associations weU calculated to facilitate the TOV to the attainment of truth ¦ way to tne attainment oi train .
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THE MOTHERS OF GJREAT BIEN . By Mrs . ' Ellis , Author of " The Women of England , " & q .. London : Bichard Bentley , New Burlington-street . 1859 . In this very excellent work Mrs . Ellis has given to the world sketches of eleven great men , varied - _^ ith briefer notices of othersfwlio owe , it is auirmed , the formation of their characters _du-ectly to maternal influence . The great men , however- — among whom are St .. Augustine and Napoleon , Alfred the Great and John Wesley , Goethe and "Lord Byron—do not much resemble each other . _^ Neither do the mothers of these great men , to -whom it _iq asserted they owe their Greatness , pos- _fiCBS any striking points of resemblance to each other , except those of maternallove and solicitude for their children . But , in this otherwise valuable work , the doctrine of maternal influence is , perhaps , carried to too great an extreme , the virtues and the vices of the son being traced with too inflexible a pen to the influence of the mother . In the course of the work we have thought , too , that we _Jiave perceived in the author ' s theory slight traces liere and there p f fatalism , or transmigration of eouls , and that in every life a new doctrine of responsibility seems to be taught . Of course , the talented author of this work will repudiate such a oharge as this ; nor do we think _ehe is at all intentionally guilty of it , yet wo must De excused for _stating-though it bo _Var from the design of the work—what the proposition of * ' hereditary properties and tendencies" suggested to us . We do not dispute tho transmission of properties from parent to son , but we objeot to its being elevated into a _faithjrfiow catholic and beau- tiful soever that faith may appear to be . That great men have had great mothers is-a fact placed beyond a , doubt , by th , e admirable sketches , _toeforo us . 1 But tho exceptions to this _xoile are so _wumwous , that wo protest against any inclination to raise it . into tho _dignity of an invariable and un- _disputed doctrine . For we know that men who
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have been left motherless , and almost friendless in the world , have by the exercise of their own energies surmounted all difficulties and become great we freely admit , however , that it is impos sible for a child to possess any inteUect , a passion , or - _i-P _^ that he lid not derive from his parents £ chlld may possess more or lea * capacity than _JP _Parents , but he cannot possess what they were _?* 7 g _* % pebaa & m of rac _, a seems in some sense to be the perpetuation of ideas and systems ; as a _hiwawhv n _monareliv a _rcrtiiblic a desrjotism _S e 3 unC C 5 _S ' _^ _£ eift neVer think of changing it : what they have inherited and become accustomed to they _^ reserve _f _^ generation to generation . Not so , fiowever are transmitted and unheld tlie virtues and vices _SlnJiSdu _^ _IUs true _& fchUd _^ n ma ? _mherit the phy _, ique , the hair , whether red or black , the e _^ e / _sioA pf the feature , the tone of the voice , an _§ the gait of the pareat , but their tastes and tendencies we know may ia some cases be alto- _^ ther different from those of the parent . The tendency of nations to war , the desire in man to travel , to communicate with his fellow , may have heen _^ gtrong . _^^ _n the m . k or tne pyramids were buildit" -as it is now . The object and aim of men in fighting and travelling were then , no _dotibt , precisely the same as they are now . But how _Ranged have tie means of both become ! War „_ _. _ . ;„ „ 0-:- ™ ,. P _ond wp _uppi _! not _woit _nAw-a-davq _™^ . S _?^^^^ i ? _2 _lWtorftaS f- mail train to bring us a letter of Intel- _^ ence—your news can be sent instantaneously in telegram . So the character of St . Augustine _^ th t of Goethe is as different as the age _^ which gave them birth , and we cannot quite make up our mind to assent to the doctrine of " hereditary _ttto- perties , » and believe that the _^ character of either of tnose at - men was entirely formed by the mother . The influences and wants of their age , w __ _anm-phend _. had _something more to do wfth _Et _^ S _^ St _^ of _SSaToTher who _wls an honour to nim . But what mother bequeathed to Homer and to Shakespeare their splendid en- dowments ? _Qr take Alexander the Great for an instance ; what sort of a woman was the mother of the nmn w ] io at the a _^ e of thirty-two had con- quered the world?—who burnt a town out of mere _^ price—who burnt a friend because he refused to nf i _! Lp him _n _ a deitv and wbo when Anaxarchus _S _^ _SXhe ? told _^ iim of _Tther worids wept tne pnilosopher , tola mm ot _otnei . worms , wept that he'could not conquer them . To judge from Alexander ' s acts , one would think that he owed his birth to Mars and Laveraa , and not to A perfect woman , nobly planned , To warn , to comfort , to command . These considerations , however , we do not place as objections against the « Mothers of Great Men , " V the talented author of _+ _" Women of Ung- land ; " we merely suggest them against any mis- conception that may possibly occur on perusing a work , the moral influence and literary excellence of which we willingly testify are great and undoubted . " He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that David his father did , " was the old religious way of writing biography , merely mentioning the name of the mother . But times have changed , and the mother now has something more than a name in biography . She has a _eacred trust and duty to discharge , _»* d an important mission to fulfil . As the world advances it is no wonder that the mind should grow weary of apostrophising stars and magnifying states , and endeavour to do something towards raising into history as shining examples those mothers who have contributed so much to the progress of humanity . The mother of St . Augustine may not have much sympathy with Napoleon , nor the mother of Wesley with forming such a character as Goethe , but the judicious and intelligent mo- ther may read profitably-these " Mothers of Great Men , " although , she may not desire t 6 see her son initiated either into the _precise tenets of the one , or the military tactics of _tho other ; a man may become great in tho world and useful to society without much resembling either . It is not noces- sary , even if it werq possible , to form all men after one model . Mrs . Ellis _haa , however , hero and there hinted at tho difficulties of a task which she undertook with diffidence , but which , we must say , she has nobly finished . Indeed , the merits of the work arc so great , and _ita influence so purifying , that wo commend it strongly to the consideration and favour of the mothers ox England .
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1 The work Is in one handsome volume with t \ I beautiful steel engravin _g s from oriainai nnrtra ' t of the mother of Napoleon and Jeaiin p TrATW . _* - Queen of Navarre . -a _^ vrev _, ¦
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. _-= - , choice _NO _^ s _tbou - _kotm and _qohw _" - . Folk Lore .-Bell and r > aidy . T hO s E who know « Notes and Queries" are well JJ _^ _^ lcS _^« _FcS l _^^ a _" ' _^ PagGS _. ¦ _SSS _dbSnS _^ _w _^ _U iL _^ nilt nT _^ 1 _^ " i _^ _^ " ™ ei y _pnntea . _pages _stlie result , _ar . d certtoly the matter _contamed in it is _reinai-kably _sugges-° examples _^ may be prohtably quoted _, " _- _P 0 " _^ _- —The crowing of a hen bodes evil , and is , _^ _fSffiu _* . _^ w ?? J ? y t £ _^ V > _^ S _°£ e mem _? er _«« family . When , therefore , Dame Partlet thus _H _&^^^ _S _^ V _^ _uS _? 1 _" * ance 5 the _Sno _^ gm mte _^ _Sh _^ _Tpi _osld to be the only way of avfrting the _tnreatS _cafamity No house , ft . is said , elm thrive whose hens are addicted to this kind of amusement . Hence the old proverb often quoted in this district : — " A whistling woman and a _crowin _^ hen Is neither fiFfor God nor men . ' " According to Pluquet , the Normans have a similar belief ,. and a saying singularly like the English one — ' "/ Unepoulc _qoi i chante le coq , et unc fiile qui sifHe , portentmalbeur daaslamai 8 OU _- '' . _nobthumberuxd ¦ tbamiios . ! " _Joaney or Johnny Reed , the parish clerk ofa ymage near _Newcastle ., was returning home one evening , and in passing ! gate by the roadside marveiled much to sfee nine cats about it His wonder was changed to horror when one of the _cZ addressed him , ' JoaneyKeed , _Joaney Keed , tell Dau RatcUffe that Peg Powson is dead . ' Joaney hurried home to his wife , and instantly informed her of the circumstance , wondering at the same time who Dan RatclifFe might be ; when u E sprang the cat from the liearth » and exclaunmg ' If Peg . Powson ' s dead , it _'& .. _^^ s _' seen no _^ orc ' _"' ' — ed out of the _hoU 8 e _^ was _^ seen no more _, >\ e add a tliird for its humour . — the _lawyers' _iutron saixt . " And now because I am speakeing of Pettyfogers , give me leave to tel l you a story I mett with when I _« ved in Rome . . Goeing with a Romane to see _s ° _Antiquityes , he showed me a chapcll dedicated to one St ' Ev ( > n ? l _> a lawyer of Bnttamc , who he said 0 Mne to Ronie to entre _^ t tUe 1 _' ope to give the _lawyers of B rittanie a Patron , to which the Pope repHed , That he knew of no Saint but . what was dispO 6 ed of to other Professions . At which Evona wa s very sad , and earnestly begd of the Pope to think of one for him . At last the Pope proposed to St . Evona that he should goe round the church of St . John de Later * blindfould , and after he had said [ jo _«""}* ' _™ _Ma . ruis that _^ Jwt _bauu he _layd how _^^ _^^^ iZ _^^ _^^ Jt _^ _- . Marye' / lie Btopt ftt _gaint Michels altar , where he i _^ _i _^ hold , of tlio Pi vei l , under St . _Michels feet , and cryd out , This is our Saint , let him be our Patron . so being unblindfolded . and seeing what a Patron he had chosen , lie went to his lodgings so dejected , that in few moneths after he die'd , and coining , to heaven ' s gates knockt hard . Whereupon St . 1 eter asked who it was that knocked so bouldly . lie roplyed , That he was St . Evona the Advocate , < Awav > _» wav » fl _» 1 ( J St- ? et 0 _' _'> J _^ Jt * _^ J . _Tawvera " _-ff _^? _^^™ _JS ? _iS _t _^ _Sit _xivyS _^ SS _JoJi ' _tSSi feo ? _Sbothddes or pleaded in a bad cauee nor did I over set my I _^ aibours together by the Eares or lived by the sins of the people . Well then , said ' St . Peter , come in . This nows oomoing down to Rome , a witty Poet writ upon St . Evona ' s tomb these words : — l St . Evonn un Hriton , . _-M _yocnt mm _A ft » '' _^ 1 ; „ _ _,. . . . . , _nPUn ' _Trti , nBrtn _o-oeinfl-, , " Tmfl _^^^^^^ " _^^ _i _^ J _^ m . _^!! Z _^ _^^ _^^ _J _^ iJ _^< So _^^^ _^ fD ? V Oh 3 shee wo have _W our _protioS lawyer Justice Randall ; ho kopt us nil in peace , and always _waa so good as to koop us from goeing to law _j the best man over lived . Well , said Ben Johnson , I will sond you an epitaph to write on his Tomb , which was , — ' « God works _wonaors now _nnti then ; Hor « _lyou a Uwyornn _honoufcraun . "' ——
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Rifia Volunteers how to Oraanise and Drill Them . _^ $ y Hans Busk , M . A .- _~ _lioutlodgo , Wnrncs and _Koutlcdgo . A _enASONAuwa work of manifest convenience .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_11061859/page/10/
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