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diately commences a rhapsody about those famous masters , Giorgione and Titian , interspersed with praises of the great Fleming . Colour , especially Venetian colour , is our modern Tintoretto ' s forte ; he has a passion for colour ; his happiest thoughts are all in Venice , whose painters are the sources of his inspiration . All other cities , and all other painters , ( excepting the great Fleming , ) are to him of no consideration . Therefore it is that our modern Tintoretto is not the sort of person to consult about pictures in general j nay , even when his favourite masters are at stake , he is somewhat too vague , and his observations seldom have that closeness necessary for practical purposes . Should the lover of the" old masters consult the great modern landscape painter , the " prophet of Nature , " as he has been termed , one can hardly conceive it possible that he would descend from " his cloud-capped eminence" to answer trifling questions about damaged pictures of low Dutch , German , Flemish , and Italian schools . Nor is it too much to say that the old schools of painting are insignificant facts to which he rarely descends . The condition-of-pictures question hardly ever once entered his mind . His own pictures decay almost as soon as they are painted , and he never takes cognizance of the fact ; intent upon immortality , the contingent decay , even in his own pictures , strangely enough , is a matter of indifference . Thus the connoisseur consults one illustrious artist after another in vain ; and he is eventually convinced " that nothing is a greater hindrance to his acquiring an intimate acquaintance with the old masters than entertaining too high an opinion of the judgment of professors in painting . " He , with some exceptions , " finds each artist an implicit admirer of some particular school , or a slave to some particular manner . "
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Ukligioub Prattle . — It h only bigotry that can make tho mistake of KuppoHing tlmt tho milking a child learned in some of tho technical ternm of a l > elief is making it religions . In Mcienco thin is clearly enough Keen . A child may talk about gravitation , cohesion , caloric , oxygen , and no on , and yet have hut little comprehension of the great teachings which those words convey to the mind of a wise man ; ho , likewise , he may prattle of atonement , justification , sanctiHcation , and so on , yet bo altogether ignorant of what tho words mean . It is but trifling with terms which , to the l > elievor , are awful and august , and solvo for him some of tho deepest mybteries of our nature . —Lan 01 'O 1 M >' 8 Religion and Education . This Imaginative Man . — -As one and tho Hiune goddesB wus called Luna in lieaven , Diana on earth , and Hecnto in tho tihadcs below , ho one and tho numo mfcn ib loftily hailed a poet , is called in commonplace a lover , and is damned by the name of u lunutic . —From © AULAfl ' s Poetics .
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j MONEY MAItKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . | Friday Evuniiif , ' , February 25 , IBM . > OoNNii > KUiiii , K buHinoHH him been triiiiHiuited in the difleront ) NtoeltH during tho punt week , and with u decided upward ' , toiidomiv . CohhoIh « r <> » tciu \ y at , i ) l ) fr to 1 M ) J for money , »»< l » t ! i )» 'i for the account Muroh lOlh . ICxchccpior UillH huVe boen ! < fralt in hh low uh I On . and 5 h . premium , tho lust price marital , ! however , 12 h . to IHh . Iu the <« . irly jmrt of tlio week , Home ¦ n » - ! < , uiry wiih niado after the Turkmli Loan , owing to n b « tt «; r 1 . fueling with reimrd to tho payment of I lie intercut proywiiuK " » i 1 ' aiiH A Hli ff lit reaction took place thia aitenioon in HlmreH ; und Wto .-kH , owing to the telegrfti ) hio ii « wh of tho brea <; h between I Austria and the Porto ; but it Iwih had no eflbel upon CohmcjIh . I All Fronoh railway-MharoH have advanced in pnoo mneo lani week . A rumour ih current amon ( , 'n ( , Home City men that , a new commercial truaty between Franoo and England , wlnon ih hiiki to bo in proKreB « , and which would doubtloHB have tho eUoot ot making French inventinents more valuable . Our own ditloronl railway uharOH havefully maintained thoir value . Money is Haiti to Imj ulentilUl , and to be obtained more eaeily . J » o reports 01
extenuivo freightH of gohl from AuHtralia . may l > e the oihihoi ot this . In tho < Jold-mining market thero ban boon conuiderublu improvement . Tho great price of copper and the lucrative returns from the different mines , him cutiHod two now copper mineH ono in Nova Kcotiit , and ono in the Khonmh I ' rovinci-M of PriiHHia-- to bo projected , with highly respectablo naineH aH directorrt , and Hupported l > y tho opiniona of miicutiilo men .
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THE THEATRICAL WEEK . What a thing it is not to know Anglo-Saxon ! Last week , in the rapidity of a parenthesis , I questioned whether Macbeth ' s " fell of hair was the correct phrase . A correspondent tells me that my query was absurd , tor the word fell is a good Anglo-Saxon imitation of the Latin , pelhs , and means skin , or covering ; so that the " fell of hair" means , the covering of hair . Another correspondent confirms it in the following letter : — " Sie , —The humble * Jones' presumes to address the august ' Vivian , ' ' I think fell is the right reading : remembering that Conn excuses the shepherds for not saluting hands , because ' we are still handling our ewes , and their fells , you know , are greasy . ' No more imposing authority as to the me ' aning is within my reach now , than an ordinary dictionary , m which ' fell' is said to be derived from * felle' ( Saxon ) , and to signify hide or skin . * Fell of hair , ' I take to be an equivalent form of expression to ' field of wheat , ' or ' dish of fish . ' Was it not Dryden who said ' Old words are old gold ? ' and Horace—but , no ! I do not think ' Jones ought to quote Latin . " But , prithee , do not get into a be-knight-ed way of inventing new readings . Shakespeare has suffered quite enough , without any further attacks . " The Indignant Jones . So , you see , I made an ass of myself—mats que voulez vous ? I can't know everything ! I don't read the Mrbiggia Saga , and have only once seen , never read , Xiphilin ! Ah ! that Xiphilin—if I had but burned the midnight oil over his pages , what lead I could aggravate my sandals with . and how the public would look up to me ! " ' Vivian' frivolous , indeed ; why , he reads Xiphilin ! " and I'll trouble you for the reverence which would follow such a remark ! . , , Instead of reading Xiphilin , I have been reading Albert bmitJis pamphlet , " Tress Orders , " being the opinions of the leading Journals on the Abolition of the Newspaper Privileges ; and a very curious page it makes in our dramatic history ; though , from all that I can learn , the " reform" will be simply confined to relieving us from the trouble and manifold vexation of writing orders : the real mischief of orders was , not that the Press used them indiscriminately , but that Managers had not tne courage to play to small audiences . However , Albert has here employed the wittiest of scissors , and the adroitest of paste , and , with these subeditors , has edited a very curious pamphlet , containing all that has been written on the subject . I have also looked over—not read—another curious pamphlet , The Dramatic Register for 1852 , which all persons curious m such matters should possess . It contains a list of all the dramatic works published and performed ; a chronology and necrology ; an abstract of the " seasons , " and a variety of theatrical facts . As to the theatres themselves , I have only been to the French I i ^ YS > to see Ravel in Edgar ct sa bonne , and in La Hue de la lune ; in both ot which , the latter especially , he was very diverting and farcical , so that ono will feel his absence to be a loss it wall require all MdIe . - Luther s smiles and wiles to console us for . She appears on Monday . Ino short visit Havel has made will not be forgotten . The houses have been excellent , and the amusement unquestionable . To have Been L Jttournean , nn Monsieur qui suit les femmes , and York , is to have seen what varieties Kavel is capable of , and what a fine actor he is amid all Ins farce . . ^ At Druhy Lank the bills have presented the " immense attraction ot BlacJc-eijed Susan , Lady of Lyons , and Armand , which with tho Urury Lane company must have been " a real treat . " By some strange perversity I did not rush there to enjoy that treat . At tho Olympic , Life in Australia lias offered its " information torintending emigrants , " in what , report says , is npt tho most amusing ot dramas . To represent life under any of its manifold aspects is a laudable ambition , but on tho stage the primary requisite is , that whatever you represent you must shape it into an amusing drama . Vivian .
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TO . The broken moon lay in the autumn sky , And I lay at thy feet , You bent above me , in the silence , I Could hear my wild heart beat . I spoke—my soul was full of trembling fears At what my words would bring ; You raised your face—your eyes were full of tears As the sweet eyes of spring . You kissed me then—I worshipped at thy feet Upon the shadowy sod . O , fool ! I loved thee ! loved thee , lovely cheat , Better than fame or God ! My soul leaped up beneath thy timid kiss ; What then to me were groans , Or pain , or death ? Earth was a round of bliss , I seemed to walk on thrones . And you were with me ' mong the rushing wheels , 'Mid Trade ' s tumultuous jars ; And when to awe-struck wilds the night reveals Her hollow gulfs of stars . Before thy window as before a shrine , I ' ve knelt ' mong dew-soaked flowers , "While distant music-bells with voices fine , Measured the midnight hours . There came a fearful moment—I was pale , You wept , and never spoke , But clung around me as the woodbine frail Clings pleading round an oak . Upon tny wrong I steadied up my soul , And Hung thec from myself ; j I spurned thy love as 'twere a rich man ' s dole— I It was my only wealth . I
I spurned thee ! I who loved thee , could have died , That hoped to call thee " wife , " And bear thee gently smiling at my side Thro' all the shocks of life ! Too late , thy fatal beauty and thy tears , Thy vows , thy passionate breath ; I'll meet thee not in life , nor in the spheres Made visible by death . Alexander Smith .
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214 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 26, 1853, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1975/page/22/
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