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We had marked , several such tidbits as the above *> r quotation . Some we had taken the trouble to classify . Our space can only afford the following ^ companion pictures , samples of our author ' s consistency . At page 2755 , he comes out enthusiastically for theold Gothic system of scot-and-iot pqU > day inuster , when heads -were counted , not acres—heads , Tiot rent-rolls . The baron or barons , alone or in ^ combination , who could carry most heads or polls -to the hustings , would stand the best chance of the sheritFs verdict as to the show of hands , if each of
4 hose hands was well furnished with a good workable hedging bill , hayfork , halberd , or even salmonlaister . " He almost waxes fiarce at De Foe , for -glorying in the designation of freeholder , thei-eby blurring potboilers and pot wallopers . But at page 350 we find that a great change has come over 3 \ Ir . Chadwick ' s mind ,. probably as the result of the wonderful amount of " scot-and-lot" support Dr . Sacheverell got in his meeting-house -gutting forays . There , we are laconically informed , " With universal suffrage I have done ; I will never support it . "
We asserted , as one count in our indictment , that Mr . Chadwick>—and that , too , by his own confession—was negligent in the collection of materials . He is guilty of the childish pedantry of " omitting Scoi * es of minor events connected , with De Foe , which in a great measure rested upon Mr . Wilson ' s . knowledge of works , pamphlets , lampoons , broadsheets , &c , and which I could not myself verify in the private collection , the bookshop , or the readingroom of the British Museum . " And Macaulay ' s History of England he has " never touched , for fear of stealing some idea or other !"
Again , we repeat that the only amusement tlus book can give to its reader , arises from its of ten cholei-ic , always hearty , fofehamnierish , and in itself not unlikeable , spirit . The only instruction ± he book yields is to be gleaned from the copious extracts given from the " Essay on Projects , " "Complete Tradesman , " and the many other unimaginative writings of De Foe . Of De Foe , as the author of "ltobinson Crusoe , " " Moll Flanders , " and ¦ " Captain Singleton , " we hear next to nothing . The last fifteen years of his life , in which all his non-political works , educational and moral as well sis fictional , were written , ' are dismissed iu thirty
pages . . Our biographer tells us , with praiseworthy qandour , that about two years and a half ago , the casual j > icking up of one of De Foe ' s reputed works at a book-stall in a Yorkshire village first led him to the subject . After our perusal of it , we wonder rather at the length of time he has had his work in hand than at the ' 'shortness of his preparations ; ibr publicity . We learn , also , from Mr . Chad wick , that lie is a maker of pantiles . So , as all the world knows , was De Foe , at Tilbury , in Essex . Our author , who . dates his preface from " Arksey , near Done aster , " has a decidedly
" Yorkshire " eye to business . He delicately hints to his readers that he has three hundred thousand excellent tiles ready for delivery , and pretty directly vouches for their quality , by crowing over De Foe , who had to work with loose Thames silt , while he bakes coherent and tough Yorkshire clay . We wish Mr . Chodwick all success in the pantile trade ; but we recommend , him to stick to it . We put Dresden vases , not pantiles , on ouv mantelpieces . And we expect for our libraries , now-adaye , well-moulded , and delicately-finished performances , not crude masses of literary lumber baked red-hot in the oven of zealotry .
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ItEV . E . HENDERSON , D . D ., Ph . D . Memoir of the Rev . JE . Henderson , D . D ., Pfi . JP ., including his Labours in Denmark , Iceland , Russia , &c . frc . By Thulia S . Henderson .. Knight and Son . Djt . Ekejmxjzjgr Hknjdkrson wus one of the most learned of the foreign amenta of the British and . Foreign Bible Sooicty . His biography is almost traced in the terms of the memorial drawn up on the oconsion of liifl death by that institution . Wo cannot do better thnn cite the passage .
"Dr . Hondorson , in company with his much-loved colleague , Dr . Faterson , lof ts Scotland in the early part of the present century with the viow of acting < is a Missionary Jm the Ditnirfh settlement of India . Unexpected events having defeated this design , his attention was drawn to the reported dearth of Scriptures -which prevailed in Iceland , and the vast importance of some vigorous measures for the purpose of providing a supply to meet the wants of those who wore destitute of and desired to possess
years rendered a large amount of , helping to kindle an ardent zeal for the spread of Divine truth , and promoting in various ways the formation of Societies , based on the same principles and working for the same end as that wh ich he represented . The visitation he undertook for these purposes -was very extended , including not only Iceland , Denmark , Sweden , but also many parts of the vast dominions of Russia . In the prosecution of his many labours he displayed a spirit of self-denial , combined with a resolute perseverance and sound judgment . Possessed of no ordinary piety , and manifesting great sing leness of purpose , he ^ contributed in no small degree to awaken and sustain an interest in many lands for the dissemination of the
valuable service the word of God . It was this circumstance which led in the providence of God to the commencement of a correspondence between Dr . Henderson and the British and Foreign Bible Society , and the committee of that day promptly and liberally encouraged the efforts that Avere proposed for printing the Scriptures in Icelandic , while Dr . Henderson undertook the responsible and arduous labour of passing the editions through the press . " Having been brought into relation with plans bearing more immediately upon the circulation of the Scriptures , he continued , with Dr . Paterson , to make this the prominent object of his labours in the north of Europe . Subsequently he became one of the accredited agents of the Society , and for some
sacred volume . " He continued to act as an agent of the Society till the year 1823 , when circumstances induced him to resign a position which he had filled with much honour to himself and great advantage to the Society . " Dr . Henderson was of Scotch parents , resident at Dunfermline , and was named Ebenezer by their . piety * in regard they had been helped by his lace of their children
birth , since he supplied the p who had died . Home-discipline was at that time more severe than at present . Beyond the Tweed the taws" were in frequent requisition ; and , sa } 's our biographer , " for the ruling of a Scottish household , the fasces of the lictor would have been a meeter ensign than the golden sceptre of love . " Ebenezer suffered by this unwise treatment . Being pursued by his mother with a stick , he turned about to face her , when he came in
contact with the edge of a cog , that stood behind him full of boiling whey . Falling backward into this lie was scalded , and had for a long period to go upon crutches , like a confirmed cripple . His only employment was to keep guard over the sheep , during which he amused himself with conning over all the picture books that he could obtain . He was cured by the advice of a female vagrant , who directed that the mother should fill the " same cog" with hot water , and hold his legs over it , covered with blankets to keep the steam in , and stretch out the legs from time to time until they became straight , The mother did this , and rubbed
them with hog ' s-lard besides ; and , in a few weeks , the desired result was obtained . His biographer remarks it as a curious coincidence , that " at this very time there was a little girl , scarcely three years old , whose parents were sending her from London to a country school at Claphum , yet with the express injunction , " Let her have plenty of air , and food , and amusement , but do not trouble her with learning , for the poor little thing will never live . " " Who would , he asks , " not have been scoi'ned as fulso prophets if they had ventured to predict that the crippled boy at Dunfennlino was to extend his travels from Ilecla to "Vesuvius , and from Tornea to Tiflis : or that the infant
invalid in the metropolitan suburb was to bo his survivor after a union of exactly forty years . " Dr . Hondci'son pioked up his early education at a road-side schpol ; but at about the age of ten , was transferred to a school in town , kept by a precentor of the parish church , at which some bettor instruction might have been obtained , One authority , indeed , Bays that ho attended the grammar school in the afternoons , under the tuition of Mr , Peter Ramqay , and that he steadily maintained his place asw dux of the Latin class . At twelve years old , ho wont into training at some handicraft , also helped at the farm , and even spent some time under Ins brother as a watch-maker 5 ho also tried his hand as a boot and shoe maker . In the year 1799 , the celebrated Rowland Hill preached in a field in the neighbourhood , arid at this date what is called Dr . Hendoi'son ' s conversion commenced .
Such is the course of instruction which so frequently turns out n better man than the most classical education can make . Providence tenches more effectually than universities , and what is
more , always utilises its teachings at everr aennW ^ stage Thus it appears , that ° young KS was led , in 1803 , notwithstanding hi ™? iS te ^ ' , to en - ter a cor P <* volunte *!!* againS Napoleon ' s projected invasions , ami was dub trained to the practice of varied military evolution / Our biographer remarks , the event had its meanin g and use ; for when , in after life , travellm < r Over th % Nogai and other steppes , he and his companions were dependent for days together on game of their own killing ; and the snipes , at which he fired from the carriage , were acceptable proofs that he had not in vain learned to take an aim and to dischaitm a shot . o
It is , of course , beside our purpose , and beyond our space , to attempt ah analysis of this biooraphv Our hero became early a pupil of Mr . Iialdane and was thrown into connexion with many Baptist minister *! , associations that enlarged his mind Withal , he seems to have maintained himself tolerably free from sectarian notions , lie was sent out , like other pupils of the seminary , on preaching tours , and in 1804 he was missioned for the Qrk ° neys . At the age of twenty-one he was appointed to foreign service by the Rev . John Paterson , and they went to DenmarkTheir
together . journey thither and duty there occupied the years from 1805 , to 1810 . A second and a third journey followedbut , the route and its results have been already sufficiently intimated in the Bible Society's Memorial . The rest of his existence was passed in his tutorships at Ploxton and at Highbury . His domestic life is traced in these pages ; his public in the Commentaries on Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezekiel , and the twelve minor prophets . His revision and editorship of some of the valuable works of the Rev ; Albert Barnes are amorier his eontributions-to
theological science that demonstrate his learning , diligence , and earnestness . He was as anxious for linguistic as theological acquirements in liis pupils , and was as sedulous in cultivating his reason as in cherishing his faith . It was thus that he succeeded iii elevating the standard of piety . HiV life is as much that of the . scholar as the preacher . For the full details of it , we must refer to the volume under review . It cannot be too carefully studied . It is not only well written , but industriously compiled ; and enters into niinutia ? of character and pursuits that are psychologically interesting . In regard to the great question' of the inspiration of the Scriptures , Dr . Henderson maintained a plenary inspiration indeed , but not a ^ plenary verbal one . " Though not a Rationalist , he was still rational m his search after religious verity .
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THE EDINBURGH RKV 1 EW . The present number is one of the most interesting we have seen for some time . Opening with a sociological paper upon female industry—arguing that whereas three out of our six million adult females are " bread-winner * , " it behoves us to provide more energetically for the free development ot the sex ' s powers—it proceeds to a pleasant retime of JDr , Earth ' s discoveries in Africa ; a philological paper inspired by Dean Trench ' s remarks on the deficiencies of English dictiunnrios ; n »< l a review of Lord Cornwall ' s recently published correspondence
. The recent notable spring in the pwfpenfy d our West ' India colonies offers the " Edinburgh ft text for an excellent disquisition upon its causes and those of the trials which suceeedoil the suwe emancipation . The reviewer has ( ysceyt in 00 or two points ) very lucidly followed tf » o wlojufe through their ruin , and shows cloarly how the ) would " have been accelerated wither thnn w ? tajiw « had negro slavery been maintained , l ' our-you " before the abolition the West India > ntoiurt . labouring , as they said , under extreme distress 1 an a pressure they could support no longer , petition *
Parliament for relief . In the ten yourse «»•§ """ 1830 , the sugar export of Jamaica ln »( liiUlen-3 Jpoi cent , below Unit of the deoadc endintfin 1820 . i £ slaves were being used up at a terrific pace , ad senteeism and the ruinous operation of . »» ° " management had hopelessly onemnben-d tue »«« of the planters . Jamaica , the queen of nil , wj utterly insolvent ; and the balance ol ovule nee gow to show that the collapse was only staved oil W ^ emancipation . After that glorious i »< wu 0 , now over , tlio tide of decadence slackened ., ^ " ^ population iu those email colonies which- 11 jouc » 1 turns showed an increase of 54 , 000 111 ^ the wg twolvc years against a decrease ot 0 U 'V % nr 0 . reviewer omits to note the gradual mnroU ol V >
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556 THE LE AD DB . [ No . 475 y April 30 , 185 ^ .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1859, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2292/page/12/
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