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advantage in such matters . The Miscellaneous Selections treat of subjects of Roman and Grecian history and literature . The volume will be eagerly sought by all Niebuhr ' s admirers . In Chapman and Hall ' s Reading for Travellers , the third volume , just issued , is devoted to an original work , Franklin's Footsteps : a Sketch of Greenland , along the Shores of which his Expedition passed , and of the Parry Isles , where the last traces of it were found . The author is Mr . Clement Mkrkham , who accompanied Captain Austin ' s expedition in the Assistance , and he has not only l | 0 re presented the results of his own experience in a lively , agreeable form , but has made a framework of history for it , narrating briefly the outlines of the discovery of G-reenland , the various expeditions to Baffin ' s Bay and Greenland in the time of Elizabeth , with sketches of the whale fishery . In noticing this " Hail way
volume , " let us not forget to call attention to the important matter of size and type which Chapman and Hall ' s series possesses : these volumes really may be put into the smallest of pockets , yet the type is as large and clear as that of a handsome octavo . To people who read in railways this is invaluable . A line or two will suffice to make our readers acquainted with the fact of a new and handsome edition of a poem with which they are all acquainted , having just been published ( by-Chapman and Hall ) , namely The Purgatory of Sutcides , that strange " Prison Rhyme , " by the Chartist Laureate , Thomas Cooper . This third edition is the same as its predecessors , except that a few rhymes have been bettered . John Alfred Langford ' s Religion and Education in Relation , to the People ( John Chapman ) is a serious , thoughtful , clear , and manly little work upon a subject of great and pressing importance . Mr . langford first inquires , In what does Religion consist P and rightly answers that it consists in something deeper than theologies .
" It is individual . As I am unable to answer for the life and conduct of any but myself—as I cannot be rewarded for the good , nor punished for the evil deeds of another , so must I not by any powers but that of reason and moral suasion endeavour to force my creed on him . For myself it is absolutely necessary that I should answer the great and solemn problems of life and death , of time and eternity . But if I attempt to compel the same conclusions on others , if I arrange my own convictions in the form of a creed , and say , Outside of this belief there is no happiness for man , neither here nor hereafter , I commit a heresy against truth , and a sin against the soul . Thus I would say that Religion is a life , and not a dogma ; a being , and not a theory . " This is in direct antagonism to the current opinion which makes Religion to consist in " right belief , not in right doing "—in opinion , not in practice . The heresy he combats is formidable : —
" For having once settled that it is by right belief that men are saved , some will fix upon one doctrine and some upon another , as the one essential saving faith , and without which no salvation cometh . And the worst of such a principle is , that the truer men are to their faith , the more opposed thajr will be to any measure of education which does not adopt their own shibboleth , and inculcate their own heresy , as the one requisite truth of life . " Having settled the first question , he proceeds to answer the second , In what does Education consist P and sums up thus : —
" Education is the fitting of man to perform all the duties of life in such a way as to conduce to the well-being of society and the happiness of the whole community ; and that it is the power whereby the whole of the faculties are exercised , giving a right direction and legitimate employment to those which nature has given in abundance , and fostering and calling forth those which require continual care and culture for their development and use . In a word , Education is the preparing of man for all the relations of life , and the fulfilment of all the duties which lie owes to society ; the perfecting of the whole by the previous perfection of the individual . "
Th ^ relation Religion to Education has next to be considered- Mr . Langford thus expresses it : — . " The province of Education being the cultivation of all our faculties , and the religious sentiment being one of these faculties , it follows that that is not a complete education which neglects this faculty . But , on tho other hand , the confounding of all the forms of religious belief , and making thorn the measure of a right education , is fraught with tho Maddest results , and productive of tho most iiitnl consequences . " Into the application of these principles wo cannot here follow him , but commend the work to the reader ' s attention as one breathing a wise and generous spirit , freo from bigotry on either sido .
GuizoVs Essay on the Fine Arts—tho original of which wo noticed on its first appearance—has been translated by Mr . George Grove , and published in an austerely beautiful form by Mr . Bosworth , who has made it a book of the iino arts , by calling in tho aid of George Scharf to furnish a score of illustrations—copies of the works described by G uizot . It is another book in this translation ; and tho deductions one might malco frpm Guizot ' s critical knowledge is more than compensated by the bounty of this volume . Always interesting because tho work of Guizot—of that groat historian and questionable minister—it has now increased attraction because of its illustrations and handsome " getting up . " It is a book for the most elegant table .
Tlio Analysis of the History and Constitution of England , I > y J . M . Monzies , B . A . ( Longman and C ) o . ) is a , tiny little school-book , in question and answer , which may ho useful to papas and manias , no lews than to boys and girls , for it brings out into distinctness several points in English History on which they perhaps have onl y vague ideas . Mr . Monzies , however , seems to have tho queerest ; notions of French pronunciation . In a note affixed to ' Poletiers , he informs us that this French word must bo pronounced " Pij-ti-waw . " We were not aware of that . A really good llhyming Dictionary is that published by Jamos 3 Fogg , of Edinburgh , " for the use of young poets . " It contains , besides the classification of rhymes , an essay on versification , full of curious and
suggestive matter . Apropos of versification , here is a work by a mas tor—Papa's Translation of the Iliad ( Ingrain , Cooke , and Co . )—a work , with all its liomorio orrors , not to bo spoken lightly of by lovers of English Literature . Tho
edition before us is a handsome one in two volumes , edited by Mr . Buckley ( the prose translator of Homer ) , who contributes a scholarly introduction , and a few unostentatious notes , brief , and to the purpose . The great charm of this edition , however , is the Illustrations , selected partly from Flaxman ' s well known drawings , and partly from various landscape and architectural drawings . . . _ The same publishers are issuing an extensive series ol illustrated Educational Works , four of which lie on our table , —viz ., 1 st , The first six Books of Euclid , printed on a new plan , with accurately executed Diagrams ; 2 nd , The Illustrated Practical Geometry , edited by Robert Scott Burn ; 3 rd , Elementary Arithmetic , by Hugo Reid , teaching arithmetic on a new plan ; 4 th , Mechanics and Mechanism , by . Robert Burn . This last-named work is something more than a school-book , and illustrated as it is with two hundred and fifty woodcuts , it will form a good introduction to the study of Mechanics .
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February 12 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . IQ 5
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THE YOUNG CRUSADERS . These are the children that in ancient time , When yet the holy grave and cross were dear , An infant knighthood , took the shield and spear , Thrilled with a gentle awe and hope sublime . Nor wonder if an angel by the pier Their leader be , or if an angel climb Over the Tessel ' s side their course to steer , While bells above the stars for blessing chime . For still in that wild error we revere The simple grace of the world ' s maiden prime , The venturous promise that makes glad the year , The faith and deed that charm like some old rhyme . Glide , knights and angels then , through waters clear , In Heaven they will not call your love a crime . M .
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Goethe .
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COPENHAGEN . " He followed his master with his dear head bent down , and sad eyes , in which I could see the tears . "—From Blanche . Dear fellow creature ! ranked among those steeds , That mighty Homer lifted to the Gods , And worthier far , in their ' august abodes , Of that ambrosia on which godhead feeds , Than men with low desires or common needs . O nobly travel Fame ' s eternal roads , Still following where the laurelled conqueror leads , And named with him in high poetic odes . Kind fellow creature ! weep celestial tears , For love celestial to all life is lent , One thought , one feeling , man to man endears , And with man ' s lot thy lowlier lot is blent , Touched with his grief when stricken love appears , In battle brave and watchful near the tent . M .
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11 AVEL AND THK NEW PIECES . " Wine neve it I make ] ovo to a married woman ( I never do ; Jt done I bufc when I do ) I take care not to slip my declaration into her bouquet . In fact , declarations should be made , not written—letters are so compromising ! and eyes are so superior in eloquence ! not to mention tho advantage of their saying nothing , if what they say is not accepted !" This was what I said in my gay , ' immoral way , giving myself < Ies airs vainqucurs , which rained me immensely in the opinion of Algernon Frisk , a young spark who accompanied me to the French Plays the other night . ' It was apropos to Ravel and L'Etouruc . au , the piece we had just seen . There was a wholesome truth in it . Letters should not be written at all ; its not moral ; but if they are written , to thrust them into a bouquet ia the height of imprudence . Here was a tragedy wrought out of it . Ifcavel —an tUoururau , or seatterbrain , if ever there was one—is in lovo with the charming wife of an ancient but jealous and offensive husband—one of those personhages hratals who wear flannel waistcoats , cotton nig htcaps , and disregard all tho . "Jiner sensibilities . " Kavel has written his declaration , und slipped it into her bouquet . On the samo morning ho wrote a letter of business to tho ancient and offensive party in the ilaunel waistcoat . Sealterbrain that ho is , instead of sending the letter to tho Imsband he slips tfmt into the bouquot , and despatches b y the post the declaration addressed to the wife , under cover to ( Jotton-nigfiteap Such things will oecur in tho bent regulated families ; hence the mistake of writing ! Jlut oh ! young Lovelace , could you have seen tho agony of ( error and despair which clutched this unhappy lover when ., after laughing at his mistake about the bouquet , the light suddenly flashes upon him that the husband must receive the declaration ! Jt would have cured you of any ambition to disturb the domestic peace of Collon-nightcaps ! Not often cau ono nay that French vaudevilles inculcate a moral lesson , but this L'Mtourneau does inculcate one . Havel's acting is ho true , so intense , so tragic in ita representation of the hurrying emotions ( fear for her whom his imprudence has compromised- terror ior himself at the idea of tho husbands vengeance—anxiety culminating to agony in his endeavours to intercept the letter
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1853, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1973/page/21/
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