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The work on The Causes and , Treatment of Imperfect Digestion contains some well-written chapters on the physiology and symptoms of dyspepsia . It is a subject about which nine persons out often , have more or hess some experience of . Habits , of intemperance tend perhaps more than any others to impair the digestive organs , or , more plainly , tend to weaken the stomach , and hence , as a matter of course , habits of temperance will strengthen and restore the debilitated functions of the stomach . It cannot be too much impressed upon the mind how absolutely essential to the enjoyment of life is the healthy and vigorous action
of the organs of digestion and assimilation ; and how much the mental activity and vigour of man depend upon their perfect and undeviating operation . In order to show on what permanently depends the golden possession of health , we have but to refer any one careless of it to the statement of the causes and treatment of imperfect digestion by Dr . Leared . The physiology of digestion is so clearly and ably stated , and the symptoms and varieties of dyspepsia are so fully given , together with the best treatment of it , that this work must be invaluable to the sufferer
in any of its painful forms . The new work on Consumption ; its true Nature and successful Treatment , by Dr . Godwin Timms , bears ample evidence of being the production of one who entirely understands the subject and is able to treat the disease , under circumstances which render it possible , with success . That there should be a hope , nay , even a possibility , of ' arresting a disease so common in England , and fatal to so many thousands annually , is an invaluable boon . According to Dr . Godwin Timms ' s showing such may be the case , and the young and fair of our land may bloom and grow strong in spite of the ravages of pulmonary consumption . His arguments are both plain and convincing , and we believe implicit confidence may be placed in his judgment ; and we doubt not that his mode of treatment is as satisfactory to members of the faculty who are competent to judge as it will be eagerly sought after and pursued by the invalid . _ . _ _ ¦'"' ¦ .. ¦
__ The British Volunteer of Yesterday and To-day is a little work that has enough intrinsic merit to recommend it to the volunteers ofthe country . Major Walter writes earnestly and vigorously , ana with perfect knowledge of what constitutes our great bulwark of peace . We cannot but ; say that we owe our acknowledged superiority as much , indeed more to the intellige ~ nce of our army than to their mere display of what is erroneously called •' brute force . " As the only element o £ victories achieved by our armies-we object to the use of the epithet " brute force" by the peace-a ^ nyprice p ' arty . Tie sheer force of vast numbers was never known to accomplish and permanently to sustain the higher objects for which battles are sometimes inevitably fought . But the manly
force of the English army , which , when thoroughly disciplined and ably commanded , has at no time yielded to armies immensely superior in point of numbers ; neither do we think it ever will , provided the unrivalled courage of the soldier is guided by the superior intelligence of his commander . Scientific knowledge and historical information relating to war should by all means be diffused in the army . We therefore recommend the British Volunteer , and fluch-like-works—to-the-afetention-of-ev « iy-man-who-is ^ engagedJn the present military movement of the nation , while , at the same time , we hope that the art which they tend to perfect , and the army which the science renders invincible , may rarely , if ever , be tested by the collision of nations . the reformed
has ever been delivered before the members of a literary and scientific institute ; the value and usefulness of the learned lecturer ' s researches may be appreciated when we state that he has recorded the history of the best bodies and libraries in the world , from the time when Plato , the chief of heathen philosophers , ami the earliest collector of books , gave £ 300 for three books , to the present time , when the library of the British Museum contains six hundred thousand printed books , and when three good books may be bought for three shillings . This lecture is very neatly printed and bound , and is inscribed to the members of the " R ) de Literary and Scientific Institute , " before whom it was recently delivered . In a little work on " Criminals and Crimes , " Mr . Bridges certainly proves himself to be an able expositor of the sciences of physiology and mental geometry . Much sound and important knowledge may be gleaned from this treatise , and we therefore commend it to public attention .
The Declaration of the Clergy , &c , is simply a list of names ot thousands of the clergy against alteration o the Book of Common Prayer . The series of Legends translated from the French contains , to a certain extent , a good deal of interest . Every story , however , appears to be damaged by a fault common to the whole , and the moral lessons intended to be taught are vitiated by an excess " of the miraculous which is interwoven with them . To inculcate the precepts of morality and to encourage the practice of them is certainly commendable ; but if it be held that the fabrication of occurrences which are utterl y bevond-all rational notions of what constitutes the
miraculous adds to the authority or beauty of moral or religious truth , then we must say that we think that the writer , translator and reader who are of that opinion have very seriously deluded themselves . We are not averse to reading the lives of pious and charitable persons , of their deeds of mercy and compassion , but if it is wished to maintain the characters of such men perfectly free from suspicion ; and their influence from being weakened , it is better not to tell us , as we are told in these legends , that they changed horsehair into necklaces of pearls , dead-leaves into gold , and sand into diamonds . Omit siteh miracles and others of a more foolisli and extravagant kind , and the publication of works like the present will be more successful , and the morale of the tales more wholesome and
" effective . ^ - •— = . ' ... ^ Evenings with Grandpapa" is a series-of very pleasing tales in prose and verse / and admirably adapted to interest and instruct the "„ young , and , what will make these stories still more attractive to the young reader are the appropriate illustrations . " _ - Messrs . Dean and Sons' publication of the prose works of Longfellow , which being very -finely printed , and beaut ifully illustrated by Birket Foster , must , we think , command a large sale . From the same publishers we have received two numbers o a publication entitled " Notable Women and Remarkable Men , " being : the stories of their lives , intended as books for the young . Lady Russell and John Frederic the Magnanimous are the subjects of the present parts . They are written in a style exactly to suit the Understandings of those for whom they are designed . n In the " Magnet , " or " Stories for Summer Day sand Winter Nights , - JVlessrs ^ Giu ) onibridgeJind ^ oua ^ aYA > ) liaL pul > lished a very pleasing
little tale entitled , " When we were Young , " by the author ot A Trap to catch a Sunbeam . " It is nicely illustrated , and is certain to be read with great pleasure by the young—ay , or by the old , in this pleasant month of May .
It is well for the essayist that the fflslory of Un Parliament has its lessons to . instructor warn us , otherwise so little interest have the public to-day in its political antiquavianism , that we fear the most elaborate essay on the subject would fail to excite curiosity . It so happens , however , that the question is interesting , inasmuch as the system of Parliamentary representation attained its sluggard acme of progress before the Reform of 1832 . Since then the principles of representative government have undergone so groat a change , and ; the moulding and reforming spirit of progress has yet to accomplish so much more in tins direction of true representative government , that all the good we can do now by calling public attention to the Unreformed Parliament is to let them see how little practical benefit it produced to the country nt large . This is
the great lesson which it teaches . The doctrine of experience has so little to do with our higher liberties and privileges , that wo do not know where to look for facts or precedents for our guidance . In a state of retrogression , whether of p olitics , religion , or science , we should find plenty of facts of experience , as it is called , for wo should be sinking year by year into the precise conditions of what we have , as a nation , historically been ; but in a state of progression , based upon the moral and intellectual advancement of the people , how can we bo guided by the experiences of a social and political condition which have never obtuined prior to the present timeP As n proof , however , how interesting tho subject of
the practical working of our system of parliamentary representation before-1832 mnyJbe made by elnboruto and enlightened criticism , and how useful may be the lesions derived from an inquiry into the Unreforinod Parliament—for is it not 9 till apart of our old English constitution P— : we refer tho reader to tho essay in question by Mr . Bagehot . That it * may be more generally known and read , as it deserves to bo , it is reprinted from tho National lievieto , and though our system of purlinmontary representation still requires to be reformed , that " Unvelbrmed Parliament" before 1832 , whilo-its lessons will undoubtedly survive , can never be repented . The Lecture on " Books and Libraries / ' by Sir John Simoon , is , wo venture to suy , one of the most interesting and instructive that
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( SVECIAI ,. ) - ¦ - . Hanover , April 30 th , 1860 . EXPERIENCE shows , that when princes pay each other appnrently friendly visits , consequences , in some way or other aff ecting tho interests o their subjects , aro sure to ensue . An instinctive belief in this causes the people now to attach more importance to the visit of the King of Saxony to the . Prince Resent of Pkussia , than the simple fact itself seems to justify . It is supposed that tho King of Saxony , who has held always a between Austria and Prussia than most of
more neutral position tho princely partisans of these two States , has been selected as the best instrument to effect a reconciliation between tho contending powers in particular , and to bring about , if possible , a unity of action among all the potty States . The reciprocal guarantee of their respectively threatened territories of Venetia mid tho Rhine Provinces , is said to be tho basis of tho reconciliation and union . Time certainly presses for an understanding of some sort between the two great German nations , but whether tho present moment is opportune for tho object tho King may have in view , w rather Besidestho of notwithstanding his
questionable . , King Saxony , probable impartiality as regards the two houses of Hojiicxjsolluun and llAi > SBUBa , is not the man to stamp the successful result of his mission with tho approbation of tho liberals of Prussia and tho rest of Germany . This King ' s Government is certainly very calm , but utterly subversive of all individual . liberty . , 1 doubt whether any peoplei in tho wide world are more completely under tho thumb ot tho police than tho people , more especially thu peasantry , ot boxony . They make no . noise * , like tho Hessians and Holstciners , boomraam those countries so much liberty does exist , that their wroiH ? B * cun find utterance ; but in Saxony all is silence and P ^ sivo endurance . This King ' s visit is , therefore , not viewed witlrau eyo of siit'staction by liberals , and a close union of Prussia with Austria under Is auspices would bo rather abhorrent than welcome , much ft 3 the
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Hay 5 , I 860 . ] The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 431
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1860, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2346/page/19/
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