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which set the house in a roar ( as much as a French audience can he made to laugh ) , and reconciled the opposition . # " I am told , by the by , that in America there is almost , at least in some parts ot the Union , ft similar fastidiousness and aversion to the outward and visible sign of being much entertained . It is told of one of our most comic actors , on his American tour , that he considered it the highest compliment paid to him in the country , when , one night after his performance , a representative of this class addressed him with , ' Well , stranger , I guess you had almost made me laugh at some of your nonsense . ' " ¦ "
PAKE AND MACINTOSH . " About the time of the trial of O'Quigley , who was hanged at Maidstone , for treason , in 1798 , some articles appeared in the Morning Chronicle , apparently reflecting on Fox . Dr . Parr read them , and was much displeased . He attributed them to Macintosh ( not then Sir James ) because they contained some > literary criticism or remark which Parr thought he had communicated to Macintosh exclusively ; in point of fact , he was wrong , as it turned out in the sequel that Macintosh had nothing to do with them j but while in the state of wrath which his belief that Macintosh was the author occasioned , he ( Dr . Parr ) and Macintosh dined together at the table of Sir William Milner , in Manchester-street , Manchester-square . In the course of conversation , after dinner , Macintosh observed , that ' O'Quigley was one of the greatest villains that eter was hanged ? Dr . Parr had been watching for an opening-, and imnwdiately said , 'No , Jemmy ! bad as lie was , he might have been a great < ka £ w ^ rse . He was an Irishman ; be might have been a Scotchman ! He was a prwsfc r \ h iniij&i hsve boeo a lawyer ! He stuck to his principles—( giving a vi ^ nn w « y-- m jjW t £ ik- <—he migtot have betrayed them !*
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EOO'ES OX OFK TABLE . Biography of Dr . SherLi . ™ Jtusprxtt . T . R . S . E . By a London Barrister-at-Law . And a third edition of the Jjt / bkwt of Chemistry on the Animal , Vegetable , and Mineral Kingdom . By Dr . Sheridan Muspratt . Churchill . Has Dr . Sheridan Muspratt no friends , or have they no influence over him , that such a publication as this can have been suffered ? It will more seriously damage him in the estimation of all , without his circle , who may chance to read it , than the discovery of a dozen sulphites would elevate him . Could he but be aware of the impression it produces he would instantly suppress the book . Men of the " titanic energy" here claimed can do without such trumpet blowing .
History of the Christian Church in the Second and Third Centuries . By James Amiraux Jeremie , M . D . J- J- Griffin and Co . The Free Church of Christendom and its Subjugation under Constantino . B y Basil A , Cooper . A . Cockshaw . Neander ' s General History of the Christian Religion and Church . Translated by I . Torry . Vol . 7 . ( BoJm ' s Standard Library . ) H- <*• Bohn . These three volumes of ecclesiastical history , each of which would require very long articles to treat fittingly , we group together , that in a sentence we may direct the attention of such readers as are specially interested in the subjects . Dr . Jeremie ' s volume on Church History is a reprint from the Encyclopedia
Metropolitana , the various treatises in which are now in course of separate publication . It presents , in a compact form , a distinct orthodox survey of the diffusion of Christianity and the history of the Church and its heresies during the first three centuries . An index is added . The volume of Mr . Basil Cooper , on the Free Church of Ancient Christendom , embraces the same period , but is written with another purpose , having an eye to modern nonconformity . Tt is graphic and erudite . But we have to complain of a serious omission—there is no index ! The third volume is JSTeander ' s exhaustive Church History , the seventh volume embracing the period from Gregory VII . to Boniface VIII ., i . e . from the year 1073 to 1294 ; a work we have so often characterized that nothing remains to be said .
The Physician ' s Holiday ; or , a Month in Switzerland in the Summer of 1848 . By John Forbes , M . D . Third Edition . W . S . Orr and Co . Veky apropos is tins pleasant and useful book . Now men are throwing off the accumulated ennui and paleness of a London season ; now they pack up for a breath o fresh air and a gulp of health ; and now Dr . Forbes ' s account of his walking tour in Switzerland will say to many , " Go thou and walk likewise . " It is an agreeable book to read—a valuable book as a prescription to invalids . The minute practical information it contains will make it as indispensable as a Murray to travellers in Switzerland . JBoque ' s Guides for Travellers . —I . Belgium and tho Rhine . With Maps and Plans . D . Boirue .
Mb . Bootth here ' ihhuch tho first of a series of Guide Books to rival Murray . Tho plan m new , and . seams a good one : experience only can decide aa to ita merits . It ifi cheaper than Murray , and very considerably more portable . Tictures of TAfe at Homo and Abroad . By Albert Smith . Bontley . Wem . worth a place in Uentley ' s Shilling Series wore these random , rollicking sketches , very funny , very fust , and sometimes very melodramatic , thrown off by Albert Smith in tho rare intervals—brief yet pregnant—which ho snatches from the laborious composition of his great work , The Geology of the Glaciers , soon we hope to bo laid before the Hciontiiic world . To the general reader that work will , it ia probable , be caviare ; he had better , therefore , full back upon the Pictures oflAfb .
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Jlohn ' a Standard Library—Neand ' vr ' s Church JIMory . Vol . VII . II . O . Bohn . Annul * and Leaendt ( if Calais . Jty It . II . Calton . J . R . Bmith . JAnlcii in . the Chain of Destiny : a Poem in various Verne . Iiy ' Ronul 4 Campbell . 85 , Newman-street . Caprices et Ziqxaij * . Par Thoophilo Qiiutior . W . Jellia . K ( uutaMo Book *—Nile Notes of a " Jlowaalj ; " or , the American in Egypt . Hy U . "W . Curtis . It . Vizetolly . l ) r . Thomson ' * Travel * in Western Himalaya and Tibet . Ilouve and Co . The Advocate . Hy 10 . W . Cox . John Crookford . Jlritith Quarterly Review . Jackson and Walford . The iteasoner . I ' lirt LXXVT . J . Watson . Jnfunthood and Childhood : a Popular Guide to its Management and Treatment . By Jacob Dixon . HoiiIhI . oii and Stoneman . The Autobiography qf William Jordan . Vol . II . Arthur Hull , Virtue , and Co . AWiwien . of Old Indian Poetry . Hy R . T . II . Orifllth . Arthur Hull , Virtue , and Co . JioAw " . Clattieal JAbrury ~ JSHtir « t if Juvenul , Ptrsims , 8 ulpMa and LuoiUut . By Rev . Lewi * Mtwui . II . Q . Doha .
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PRELUDE . Bordeaux , September 27 , 1861 . $ S |§© EAR Friends of my thoughts , § 1 § H > ^ w *** kv tne date now fa * I have come in my ^ ¦ 1 f 2 pilgrimage away from the sacred sjfot ; and I have to tell you for &&& §> your solace that I am as well in body as I am in mind and heart . If you are hurt , seek the winds and the waters , seek humanity in the changeful countenance of many climes—seek vicissitude , and note how , through many discords , the hand of the Divine Master modulates the great theme of the world , ever resolving it into new harmonies . If the sufferer can rise above the level of his own home , like the crane , and call into his view the
ever-varying surface of the sea of fortune , he shall see that the law under which he has been cast down is but the same law which raises all into life , which sustains the universe . Life and love never die ; and exiled for & time from happiness , we may at least go forth and witness what we cannot share , or share only through witnessing . There is no unredeemed misery save the loss of the capacity to love—the sinking beneath into meanness and unfaith ; for love can survive bereavement , but it cannot survive the loss of generosity . I am stronger in heart than when I left Val Perduta ; not to find until
I have had no letters from America , and do expect any I get to Paris ; but I am sure that Julie cannot reach London before April , and if she follow my counsel , I shall not see her before May : as she has remained so long , she had better wait for the spr ing weather . When I wrote to you from Lugano , and also from Geneva—my letters have been as irregular as my path or as my thoughts—I forgot to explain that which you , Giorgio , have received long before this one , from the worthy Baldassare Cini . I dare say he may have told you enough to forestall my story , but he will not have told you what I saw , at all events
not as I saw it . You see how soon I encountered adventure on my way from Val Perduta . I had been sleeping near the river , just as it escaped from a ravine , beyond which I could discern a pretty lake-nke expansionfor the days were still hot , and I know not what awoke me . Certainly not the stinging hum of insects ; nor , as certainly , the persons I saw , for they made no noise . Just as I awoke I saw a yotmg girl come down to the edge of the water , at a place where the bank dipped near to the surface , and a small coppice of underwood filled the hollow . She did not see me , although her face was towards me ; no one would have looked just where I had found shelter from the sun , under the rock and the shade of an old
vine , the relic of cultivation when the whole country was richer than it is now . Her look made me notice something floating on the water , which I discerned to be the black head of a man , whose bright shoulders glistened in the sun and the glancing water as he swam rapidly towards the p lace where she stood . She was already leaning forward , and she leaned more and more , until he rose from the stream , brilliant and agile , like a noonday Leander , into some cloak which she had brought to receive him . She fell into his arms , and then , after a few kisses , so passionate that I loved the two for being so happy , she turned for him to lead her from
the water . . - I have kept for you two the drawing which I made from recollection ot that strange and beautiful group ; only that I was not near enoug h to do justice to it . The youth , who was nearest to me , was holding one hand 6 the girl ' s , his left arm round her waist , his head , with the black curls parting upon his white neck , stooping down ; his draped body , like a living statue , moving with the lithe grace of perfect youth . Although he moved gently , every movement of his figure was eloquent of vigour and * & ** y ' Her figure I could not so well see , but her red boddice glanced bcnuia his sharply-defined and brilliant shoulder . And so they walked on tne brown dried grass , beneath the blue sky , and were p assing among green shrubs . At that moment , emerged two men , one of whom made a g listening
blow at the young man . , The lovers separated as if by instinct ; the girl drew aside , and the you , still unharmed , dashed off up the hill—the cloak parting from him hke » sail from the storm-pressed ship . n I could not paint that—the headlong fleetness with which he ra , bounding and skimming along the broken ground ; a glowing , vl K statue , bright against the trreen and brown of the foliage ; now chasing > . . - _ .. - X ... . - , - l .,. * . » n ><> rl til * - ' low f the broad sunshine between
shadow in the full g o , now glancing straggling trees and vines . I had already conceived a sympathy tor young Leander ; and I rose up to interfere , resolved at least to c » un balance the odds against him . But my good purpose was his ml 8 fdrtU V At the sight of me coming steadily in front o ^ him , he instinctively pau ^ ^ as if discovering a new pursuer , and then turned aside . But bnc ^ had been , the pause was sufficient for disaster . One of the men cavaC tJ ^ with him , something bright again gleamed for a second in the sun * j the young man fell . He rose again , and ran a &w paces , but the seco «
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encouraefe itself . —Gobthb . R
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1947/page/20/
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