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- ^^ . ¦¦ -MfiTiwt- ^ sgtafrcrfSsgggag- " - *¦* " ** . '" "" - " ' —— — ' ¦ - meetings * Next to music he delighted in mechanics , and spent much time in inventing and constructing ¦ with his own hands , implements for his trade , and even articles of domestic furniture , lie took much pleasure in the practice of his own art , and had an honourable pride in spinning the finest yarn and weaving the most delicate muslins in the trade . No man however can excel in all things , and it was Mr . Crompton ' s misfortune to undervalue and disregard that practical knowledge of the world and of men which is essentially necessary for success in any business This rendered him quite unable to dispose of his varn and muslins when he had made them however great their intrinsic value . His naturally shy disposition , moreover , had been increased and his temper injured by the cruel injustice winch had so frequently blighted his hopes when in the bud This peculiarity of character may be best
understood from his own words : "I found to my sorrow I was not calculated to contend with men of the world ; neither did I know there was such . a thin" - as protection for me on earth ! I found I was as unfit for the task that was before me as a child of two years old to contend with a disciplined army . "f And such was indeed the fact . When he attended the Manchester Exchange to sell his yarns of muslins , and any rough-and-ready manufacturer ventured to offer him a less price than he had asked , he would invariably wrap up his samples , put them into his pocket , and quietly walk away . j He was never either in want or in debt . Frugality was the custom of the time , and he practised it faithfull y in his own person and taught it to his family . Utterly averse to speculation , he was well content with a moderate and regular profit in his business transactions when he could obtain it .
" How different the character and the career of Sir Richard Arkwright ! The thirteenth child of a family steeped to the lips in poverty , he was turned into the world without education , which in after life he never found time to acquire . Trained to a servile handicraft , and without a shilling of capital , the position from which he raised his fortunes had not one of the advantages enjoyed by Crompton ; but to compensate for this he possessed an indomitable energy of purpose which no obstacle could successftrHy oppose , a bronzed assurance that enabled him unabashed to meet and to thrust aside either
circumstances or men when they stood in bis way , an unscrupulous hand to grasp and appropriate the ideas and immatured inventions of others , a rude health that enabled him to work or travel when others slept , and an undaunted spirit for speculation ^ pre- ^ pared to accept success or failure without any visible effect on his mind or temper . Thus their functions and career in life were singularly different , while both were benefactors to the human race . " What we have already given of this book suggests the whole outline . For the details we must refer the reader to the work itself ; which lie will find thoroughly up to the mark , highly useful for the purpose intended , profitable reading for all , instructive , suggestive , and interesting . The niggardly grant of 5 , 000 * . ultimately voted to Crompton for his invention by Pai-hament is deservedly condemned and illustrated , in terms of scorn that may deter future Governments from similar injustice .
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REMINISCENCES OF SCOTTISH LIFE AND CHARACTKZt . By E . B . Karasay , M . A ., F . it . S . E . —Kdmonstcm and Douglas . This is the thivd edition , much _ enlarged , of an amusing work , which is versant with Scotch anecdotes and Scotch humour ; the object being , in the words of the dedication , " to fix and preserve a page of our domestic national annals , which , in the eyes of the rising generation , is fast fading into oblivion . " Many fresh anecdotes are , wo arc told , introduced . Tho field is extensive and not yot exhausted .- Wo could wish that more labourers were enlisted in tho service . Hero are some remarks that justify quotation : —¦ " IV . Wo ' come next to reminiscences chiofly connected with ' peculiarities which turned upon our Scottish language , including , of courao , ehango of dialect and expressions . Now this is a very
important change , and affects in a greater degree than many persons would imagine the . general modes and aspect of society . I suppose ' at one . time the two countries of England and Scotland were considered as almost speaking a different language , and I suppose also , that from the period of the xinion of the crowns the language has been assimilating . We see the process of assimilation going on , and ere long amongst persons of education and birth very little difference will be perceptible . With regard to that class a great , change has taken place in my time . I recollect old Scottish ladies and gentlemen who regularly spoke Scotch . It was not , mark me , speaking English with an accent . No ; it was downright Scotch . Every tone and every syllable was Scotch .
For evample , I recollect old Miss Erskine of Dun , a fine specimen of a real lady , and daughter of an ancient . Scottish house . Many people now would not understand her . She was always tire lady , notwithstanding her dialect , and to none could the epithet vulgar be less appropriately applied . Ispeak of . thirty years ago , and yet I recollect her accost , to me as well as if it were yesterday . " I did na ken ye were i ' the toun . " Taking words and accent together , an address how totally unlike what we now meet with in society . Some of the old Scottish words which we can remember are delicious ; but how strange they would sound to the ears of the present generation ! Fancy that in walking from church , and discussing the sermon , a lady of rank should now express her opinion of it by the description of its being " but a hummelcorn discourse . " Many living persons can remember Angus old ladies who would say to their nieces and daughters , " Whatna hummel-dod die of a
mutch hae ye gotten ? " meaning a flat and lowcrowned cap . I profess myself an out and out Scotchman . I have strong national partialities—call them if you will national prejudices . I cherish a great love of old Scottish language . Some of our pure Scottish ballad poetry is unsurpassed in any language for grace and pathos . How expressive , how beautiful are its phrases ! You can't translate them . Take this example of power in a : Scotch expression to describe what is in human life , and it is one of our most familiar ones ; as thus , —we meet an old friend , we talk over bygone days , and remember many who -were dear to us both , once bright and young and gay , of whom some remain , honoured , prosperous , and happy—of whom some are under a cloud of misfortune or disgrace—some are broken in health and spirits- —some sunk into the grave ; we recall old familiar places—old companions , pleasures , and pursuits ; as Scotchmen , our hearts are touched with these remembrances of
.. Auld Lang Syne . Match me the phrase in English . You can't translate it . The fitness and the beauty lie in the felicity of the language . Like many happy expressions , it is not transferable into another tongue , just like the " simplex munditiis " of Horace , which describes the natural grace of female elegance , or the avtjrtQfiov ytXttafta of ^ schylus , which describes the bright sparkling of the ocean in the sun , I cannot help thinking that a change of national language involves also a change of national character . Numerous
examples of great power in Scottish phraseology , both in the picturesque , the feeling , the wise , and tho humorous , might be taken from the works of llobert Burns or Allan Ramsay , and which lose their charm altogether when unscottified . The speaker certainly seems to take a strength and character from his words . We must now look for specimens of this racy and expressive tongue in the more retired parts of tho country . It is no longer to be found in high places . It has disappeared from the social circles of our cities , " This specimen will doubtless induce the reader to peruse tho entire work .
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THE MrNHTtAL . SPIUNUS OF VICHY . By ilio author of " Tho Spas of Okrmiuiy , " Ac . John Cliurvhi'll . This is a very lin . ndsomc-looklng volume , Svlrich professes to give , according to its litlo-pago , that we have abridged above , " a sketch of the chemical and physical character " of tho mineral springs of Vichy , " and of their efficacy in tho treatment of various disensas , written after a rapid excursion from Kisdingcn , in tho summer- of l ( 358 j asa guide to English invalids su / fering from gout , indigestion , acidity of tho stomach , and gravel . " So late as
tho year 1850 the French Government plnoed the minci'al establishment in respectable hands , and it lias accordingly boon since muoh frequented . No English publication , however , oxisted on tho subject until tho present , which therefore supplies a want . Tho- author has great praotical knowledge of hydromineral treatment , and had already produced a work which led to its app lication in chronic diseases . • ' Dr . Granvillo loads us first by tho proper routewhich , it sooms , it is easy to miss—worn Kissingen
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KAISKD TO TIfE rBEUAGK . A novel , tty Mrs . Octavius Friore Owen , author of ' The Heroines of History , " &c . 0 vole . —Hurst aud Blm-kctt . THE TWO HOMES . By "William Mathows , author ol " The Heir of Vullia . " 3 vola . —Smith , Klilor , und Co , Had "Raised to the Peerage" been '¦ written fifty years ago it would have been very popular . ' Mrs . Owen does not say the exact time that her story commences , but the tone seems to urf as though she were speaking of the present dny , while her characters arc of that class from whieii no vi-Hats uCthe beginning of this century s elected their dramatis nersonce . That Mrs . Owen has imido fhe most of
her materials wo arc willing to udmit , but why she has selected such rogues and villains <<> point her moral and adorn her tale , it in Jmrd to nay , \ Ve may bo thankful , however , that in real hie there is not such strife and wickedness to get to the peerage as depicted in her pages . J lie portrait of Mrs . Shcflield , in ably drawn , but it jo . si'n its iorco when tho reader reflects tlinl it is" not truu to Ji / o . Many of tho minor characters are of th « class that appear ogres to children , and m « o to growji-up « :. L ., n'Mlni 7 . rliabIe . aiid ' C * aetly fit fora
Surreymolodrama They do the most atrocious limits , and think juiitna little of murdering a person km ol eating tliuir dinner . Surely we have had enough of this class of iwuos , without winhing to revive them again . Though wo cannot speak viiry highly of . tho oharnetoi-fl , wo can speak in . praise of the story . Mrs . Shcflield , of Wontworth Hall , in married to a man who has , by dint of h is own worth , risen from tho humblest position to have a Heat in tho House of Commons . Ho is a conscientious ami honourable man , while his wife is ambitious , unscrupulous , proud , and unprincipled . Who is roprononted as jolng also fnsoinating , which helps her considerably in her design to lyivu her husband raised to ho peerage . We will not follow her in all her
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to Vichy . He was sure of a friendly reception , owing to his character as a successful author . Dr . Barthez gave him every information and facility ql investigation . He then appears to have examined seven of the sources of the waters—t hus named : Grande Grille , Puits Chornel , Puits Carre , Source de THopital , Sources Lucas and Acacia , Celestins , and Puits Lardy . "I did not " says the doctor , " sec any reason for a single grimace in drinking of the Grande Grille ,, or , indeed , of any of the rest of the warm sources . There is in all of them a first impression produced
like that from the faint animal habitus <> t a person in health with an empty-stomach . The taste of the water is pleasant rather than not . Smooth to the mouthj the water slips like soap down the throat . No one can mistake the strongly marked alkaline gout of the water after its complete injection into the stomach , for it leaves behind on the tongue the impression of your having , chewed a certain quantity of carbonate of soda . Au premier aburd , this is not perceivable , for the quantity of free carbonic acid gas , which escapes along with the water , masks , by its agreeable acidity and effervescence , the alkaline taste . "
" I entertain a conviction that were Artesian wells to be sunk on any two points eastward , between these two places , we should find mineral water like all the rest ' of the mineralised water of Vichy ; with two degrees of temperature intermediate , between that Of the Hopital and the Celestins . The observation of M . JDufrenoy , in his official report on Vichy , to the Minister of Commerce , quoted in the preceding section , authorises me in forming this conjecture , froni all of which I conclude that the permanent chemical nature of the Vichy sources and the variation in then * temperature demonstrate their singleness of origin—in other words , that there are not many , but there is only one mineral water ha Vichy . "
Dr . Granville extended his researches to the neighbouring springs . ; such as the Source des Dames , Sources de Vaisse , and Haute-rive ; and has added tables of analyses by several scientific men and iatro-chemists—for few . mineral springs * he tells us , have attracted more attention , in point of chemical investigation of their specifi c ingredients , than those of Vichy . He has also appended the hospital statistical tables , " affording proofs positive of the efficacy of Vichy waters in certain diseases . " Generally , it may be stated that every particular relative to . the establishment and its surroundings and consequents may bo found in the doctor ' s well-printed and thick-papered volume .
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* Ho nlityod on tho violin with errant skill , wuh frequently invited to ivttood oouaurtfl lit U »« fiwrl of "Wilton ' s ( thou Mir rhoinurt K ^ erton ) , ami such was tho cqrrootnu » n of his tlmo , that howovor mimy orrod lie could not bo Icil uwiiy with thorn . —JlfatHMartjit memorandum by a rvlnttvv . t LoUor of Hiiinuol Orompton . X Orompton wnu Booxoooil ]»« -lyBhyftndflon « ltlvo Unit ho 1 Mb boon known to roturn from MunohoBtar without uvon imomptlng- to tniiiHftct buslnosH , boouuHO he obnoi'voil himsolf to bo polntua out to Ht run purs ne a romniicnblo mini . 9 "His spoouhMlvo Hohemutt were vu » fc find during ? ? * * and frontOiu oxtraviiffniiog of eomuoftlioriu doalurnH hlu Judloloun frluiula woro of opinion that If ho nad livoil to put thorn in nrnotloo , ho infcht hnvo ovorBut tho vrholu fiiiirlo of lile proBporlty . "~ Bninob' " Cotton Mnnufuoturo . "
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¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ No . 494 . Sept . 10 , 1859-1 T H E L E A D E R . 1039
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1859, page 1039, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2311/page/19/
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