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because she allows grass and flowers to grow on her surface ? I love you , my own . All that is strong , and deep , and earnest in my being clings to yours ; is twined with it , lives in it . All else is external , fleeting , evanescent ; that alone , with the love of ' God , ' is a part—the best part of , myself . But we are led back to Paris salons . •—We dined to-day at Madame E . de G—n ' s , and met more wonderful people . First , there was Madame G . S—d . Coyer her eyes , and nowhere and nohow else shall you find in her , in one interview at all events , any evidence of the genius—more especially the order of genius-that distinguishes her . She is short and stout , with a large face , the lower part of which is very coarse , and it is but the eyes that are handsome and expressive . I noted her hands , which are remarkably small and , oddlv enough , are only wanting in flesh to make them handsome . She speaks little , and what she says is much more characteristic of plain strong common sense than of fancv or brilliancy , and her manners are perfectly quiet and free from affectationindeed from any peculiarity . A . Dumas was there ; very amusing , but I should say capable of being extremely overpowering . He talks incessantly , very loud , and with frantic gesticulations ; he knows and loves everybody , and seems utterly deficient in the tact that should teach him whom he may or may not be familiar and demonstrative with , or what subjects are permitted or inadmissible in general conversation . He is exactly like a huge , boisterous , good-humoured Newfoundland puppy , let into a drawing-room to display his intelligence and accomplishments ; these , no doubt , are remarkable and highly amusing : but the result is , you feel that the witnessing the ¦ expenditure of this amount of animal life and superfluous energy produces a sensation of fatigue nearly as great as if you had been going through the exhibition yourself . Finally , the marriage is to take place within twenty-four hours , and there is not a blush upon the candour of the ladj : — Child , I can neither rest nor sleep , nor eat ! I cannot speak nor write coherently . I feel like one taken \ ip to Heaven unexpectedly , and dazzled and overpowered with the sudden glory and happiness . This evening only—from what cause of delay I know not—your letter reached me ; and as all attempts at sleep have proved vain , I got up with , the first flush of the June sunrise to write to you . Is it possible , that , in another veek , you will be no longer a recollection but a reality to me ? that the spirit I feel hovering near me will become embodied , and that my senses , as well as my soul , will be cognisant of your presence ? This is a charming book , very original , very amusing .
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THE STUDY OF LIVING LANGUAGES . The Study of Living Languages . By Colonel A . Cotton . Scottish Press : Madras . This little book is a timely contribution to the requirements of the day , clearing off as it does sundry superfluous difficulties from the study of living Indian languages , pointing out the objects which should really form the student ' s aim , and indicating the means whereby they may be most effectually attained . The author starts from the principle that a thorough familiarity with the tongue as spoken is the real desideratum for an Indian interpreter , that philological refinements are a very secondary consideration , that even the faculty of reading is of minor importance as regards languages which possess no books that deserve to be read . He points out the error heretofore ge nerally committed of studying the said languages on the classical system , and calls attention to the fact that the chief peculiarity or Oriental tongues , and their greatest difficulty , consists of their extremely idiomatic character , and the peculiarities of their pronunciation . He consequently lays it down as a rule , that such languages must be . learned by the ear rather than by the eye , and by means of repeating over and over a «» ain after a moonshee—real , original native sentences , the meaning not the translation of which in English is to bo impressed upon the memory . Colonel Cotton observes , that after deducting all technical , . obsolete , and poetical terms the actual number of words in common use nmong the natives is very small , so that a vocabulary of four thousand or five thousand words of all sorts would enable a man to make his way anywhere , and feel hiinse f at his ease in conversing with the people , provided ho could arrange them idiomatically and pronounce them aright . This , can only be attained by practice with a native instructor ; no book instruction can be more than a feeble auxiliary , and will often lead to false , pronunciation , and to the habit of making use of English sentences in a native dress , which no native would understand . Books are in the first start even obstructive to progress . The Colonel suggests , that in the first place a certain number of the very commonest words should be selectedand these combined in short sentences ,
, illustrating the inflections of nouns and verbs , nnd more especially the peculiar ionnulcc of expression , which constitute the ' idiom of the lancuiK'e These words and their combinations having been once mastered , the pronunciation would most likely be correctly fixed , and , so to speak , the tongue of the student filed to the language he is ( o work upon ; the idiom would also , to a great extent , have been conquered , and further progress greatly facilitated by such particulars of grammar as arc invariable And'indippensuble , the inflections , for instance , of nouns and regular verbs , hem" impressed upon tho mind by continual examples , Beyond tins , the " ludyof grammar is very liUlo needed for a student who only aims at colloquial fluency . There arc plenty of ladies , for instance , who spoalc most impeccable French or English , who would bo horribly puzzled to parse . a complicated sentence . Pruuliuu alone lias made them perfect , and what practice does in one case , practico , snys the Colonol , will do in another . When tho student has mastered his first batch of sentences , he will proceed to more words and longer sentences , until ho has acquired all the phrases required for conversation ; should ho then choose to push Ins studies further , he will find his work the easier for having laid so good a foundation \ while , if he chooses to content himself with the progress already made , lie ¦ Will , at least , bo u fluent speaker and good practical interpreter , which very few of tho eollogo * passed men' turn out to bo . ^ % is -H ttlo-bookr-intty-provo ^ of ~ groaL-assistunco , t 64 ho . nuHTipv . pjAMimoi | J ? British rogimente now proceeding to India ; they must , however , iiniloratund that it does not profess to tumble a man to bo a linguist without trouble . It oalls for at Joust as muuU industry ad tho old system required , but , by knocking otfso much of tho superfluous , which that old system involved , nnd limiting tho objects Of study to tho really useful , it certainly will save a great deal of time , and the industry applied will not be wasted in mnking acquisitions which turn out to be of no practical u » o when acquired .
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THE NATURAL SCIENCES . A Cyclopcedia of the Natural Sciences . By William Baird . M . D . Griffin and Co . This volume forms one of an important series issued by Messrs . Griffin , the publishers of the excellent Enclopcedia Metropolitana . It is the work of Dr . William Baird , of the British Museum , and is illustrated by a map , showing the distribution of animals over the globe , and by a variety of woodcut illustrations . Dr . Baird has not pretended to exhaust his subject , since , as he admits , the natural sciences embrace a multiplicity of objects so vast that the mere enumeration of them alphabetically would occupy his entire space . His design has been , therefore , to present a succinct account of the most interesting ' objects in the animal , vegetable , and mineral kingdoms , explaining the various terms used by authors in treating of them , and supplying , in fact , a manual for familiar reference . Keeping this plan in view , it was essential to condense the several articles , so far " as was compatible with clearness , and a satisfactory statement of the particular science involved , and Dr . Baird has accomplished this with peculiar success . His book is in the form of an encyclopaedia , and is , of course , in one sense , a compilation , but many parts are written with much freshness and ease . In construction , the work differs in some notable respects from most of its predecessors , containing a dictionary of English terms referring to the scientific names as they occur . Some very curious and interesting papers are introduced , as Teratology , or the . study of the abnormal forms of animals , or , as they are popularly culled , monsters , a knowledge of those deviations from nature being , as Dr . Baird says , of great use in zoology . He has at present confined his illustrations in this department to zoology , since the application of them to botany would have necessitated an inconvenient increase in the size of the volume . Like all the manuals in the series , this Cyclopaedia has been edited with the utmost care , and deserves to rank among standard works of reference .
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GASTON BLIGIL Gasion Bliqh . By L . S . Lavenu , ' Author of ' Erlesmere . ' 2 vols . Smith , Elder , and Co . Br those who read Erlesmere this new novel will be cordially welcomed . It posseses similar merits , with others which we did not notice in the author ' s first production . The story is related in the form of an autobiography , and , while the style is marked by frequent though slight affectations , a very fewpages suffice to create an interest which never once abates . Some of the characters are drawn -with great effect ,. Gaston ' s and Sylvia ' s especially , and the impress marked by early education is discriminatingly preserved without fatiguing moralizings . The romance is that of love , with a barrier against the * happiness of the lovers , and the author ' s contrivance to avoid conventionality will please those to whom the circulating libraries have brought all but satiety . There is often , too , much descriptive power , quietly and grace - fullv developed , and the composition , although elaborately quaint , is of more than average merit . But that which is most to be admired is the warm and tender portraiture of a woman , Sylvia , the good and evil genius of Gaston Bligh . We have been interested in this novel , and believe that the writer is capable of advancing considerably further in his art .
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L PUBLICATIONS AND JREPUBLICATIONS . Some important lite'rnry nnnouncements Jinvo been made by Messrs . Longman and Co . —A Narrative of tho Siege of Liic / cnow , by Mr . L . E . Lees , the first survivor who has reached England ; a translation , edited by Mr . G . It . Gleirr , of Brailmont ' s Life of the Duke of Wellington ; the third volume of Hue's Christianity in China , Tartar i / , and Thilel ; the fourth and fifth volumes of Dr . Barth ' s African Travel * - ; the fourth and filth volumes of the New Edition of Bacon , by Ellis , Speckling , and Heath ; Mr . Hay wards Biographical and " Critical Essays ; tho sixth volume of Menvales Jtonum History ; the fourth volume of Ilumboldt ' s Cosmos , translated under the superintendence of Major-Gcnernl Sabino ; nnd the last volume of Bunsen s great work on Egypt ' s ' Place in Universal History . From Mr . Koutledge we huvo tho first volume of a new edition , to bo completed in throe volumos , of a work already popular , Tho Jiiso of the Dutch Republic : a History , by John Lothrop Motley , to bo completed in three volumes . It is we ' printed , on good paper , and is a very acceptable rcpublication . .. . ,, ., „ , Messrs . Saunders and Ottley have issued a second edition of laarajter Year : a Tale , by tho Author of « Paul Korroll , ' and ' IX . Poems by V . We have from Mr . A . W . Bennett , successor to Messrs VV . and G . Cash , a second odilion . revised and corrected , of Tho Unupanor J / uil ; or , Discourses on tho Immortality of the Soul , by Jean Paul Jlioliter , translated from tho German by Juliette Gowa . n ., -TffoisJirxTrTura" ^^ — liarics , by John Armstrong , D . D ., late Bishop of Gralmmstown , oc . tod by tholtev T . T . Carter , Sector of Clewer , liork-. ' 1 ' « o JJa-aya ^ . gnially appeared between September , 1840 , and March , 1840 , in three of the loading reviews of tho day . ' The volume is mtorostintf , In . toricully and from its earnest and intellectual discussion of tho social question in * oatad < by tho following titlea : ' Female Penitent * j * ' Tlio Church and her * emalo Poiiitonts i' aiul ' Female Immorality—itd Cuusua tmd Liouiouiou .
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MR . GLEIG'S ESSAYS . Essays , Biographical , Historical , and Miscellaneous . Contributed chiefly to the Edin burgh a . nd Quarterly Reviews . By the Rev . G . R . Gleig , M . A . 2 vola . Longman and Co . Mr . Gleig ' s Essays have at least the merit of variety . They range from the war in the Punjab to the struggles of the Puritans , from General Miller to natural theology , from military bridges to Dr . Chalmers , from military education to the wild traditions of Saxon Switzerland . In his dedication to Dr . Ferguson the author says : " You do not require to be told that they comprise but a fragmentary portion of the essays , good , bad , and indifferent , of which I mig ht claim the authorship , for we are , I believe , the sole survivors of a little band who in youth and early manhood wrote perpetually , " We do not find that the papers now collected call for any special criticism .
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No . 414 , rEBRMY 27 , 1858 . T T H _ JL __ L E A p EJfe' ____ 1 Ji L _
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 27, 1858, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2232/page/19/
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