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    772 The Saturday Analyst and Leader. [Se...

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    adopted in Europe . A more adequate provision has been made for popular education than in almost any other country . I believe that in the cities of Boston , ' . New York , and Philadelphia , more money in proportion to the population , is' raised by taxation for the support of common schools , than in any other cities in the world . There are more seminaries in the United State 3 where a respectable academical education can be obtained—more , I still mean , in proportion to the population— -than in any other country except Germany . The fine arts have reached a high degree of excellence . The taste for music is rapidly spreading in town and country j and every year witnesses productions from the pencil and the chisel of American ; sculptors and painters , "which would adorn any gallery in the world . Our astronomers , mathematicians , naturalists , chemists , engineers , jurists , publicists , Listorianspoetsnovelists , and lexicographers , have placed themselves

    , , on a level with those of the older world . The best dictionaries of the ZEnglish language since Johnson are those published in America . Our constitutions , whether of the United States , or of the separate States , exclude all public provision for the maintenance of religion ; but in no part of Christendom , is it more generously supported . Sacred science is pursued as diligently , and the pulpit commands as high a degree of respect in the United States , as in those countries where the Church is publicly endowed ; while the American missionary operations have -won the admiration of the civilized world . Nowhere , I am persuaded , are there more liberal contributions to public-spirited and charitable objects . In a word , there is no branch of the mechanical or fine arts , no department of science , exact or applied—no form of polite literature—no descrip tion of social improvement—in which , due allowance being made for the means and resources at command , the progress of

    the United States has not been satisfactory , and in some respects astonishing . At this moment the rivers and seas of the globe are navigated with that marvellous ; application of steam as a propelling power which was first effected by Fulton ; the monster steamship which has just reached our shores rides at anchor in the waters in which the first successful experiment in steam navigation was made . The harvests of the civilized world are gathered by American reapers ; the newspapers which lead the journalism of Europe are printed on American presses ; there are railroads in Europe constructed by American engineers , and travelled by American locomotives ; troops armed with American weapons , and ships of war built in American dockyards . In the factories of Europe there is machinery of American invention or improvement ; in their observatories , telescopes of American construction , and apparatus of American invention for recording

    the celestial phenomena . America contests with Europe the introduction into actual use of the electric telegraph ; another mode of operating it is" adopted throughout the French Empire ; American authors , in almost every department , are found on the -shelves of European Libraries . " Alluding to Washington , Mr . Everett says the American people " may proudiy boast of one example of life and character , one career of disinterested service , one model of public virtue , one type of human excellence , of which all the countries and all the ages may be searched in vain for the parallel . I need noton this day I need not—speak the peerless name . It is stamped on your hearts , it glistens in your eyes , it is written on every page of your

    history , on the battle-fields of the Revolution , on the monuments of your fathers , on the portals of your capitols . It is heard in every breeze that whispers over the field of independent America . And he was all our own . He grew up on the soil of America ; he was nurtured at her bosom . She loved and trusted him in his youth ; she honoured and revered him in his age ; and though she did not wait for death to canonize his name , his precious memory , with each succeeding year , has sunk more deeply into the hearts of his countrymen . " The orator , wliose speech was prompted by the ? ' discussion in the British House of Lords , " subsequently turns his attention to the theory and working of the English , constitution , which lie criticises at some length and with great logical acumen . ,

    Our Age . 1800 . A Satire , By Jumos Howell . Brighton : Trencher & Co , ; London : UamUton < 5 c Co . 18 G 0 . This author " goes in" right and loft at an infinite variety of things nrliich enjoy a considerable amount of public favour . " Pegtops , " ( not the toy , but the trousers ) ; "Crinoline ; " " Tomfoolery and Tom Taylory ; " "the noble science of Fisticuffs ; " " Sorib , the King of JJliymestora" ( whoever that may bo ) ; " Prosy rhyming Scribblers" ( who are plentiful enough ) $ * ' Many-visaged Quqekeryj" "Jteligious Quacks ;" 11 Miracle-work ing Quacks j" " Class-diatiaofciou ; its Cerberus , Watchdog Fashion }' " tho Ago of Mock-Piety , " & o . & o . & c . " come in for discussion , " us the phrase goes . Tho following linos are worth quoting : — " Dense is our population , how it grows ! Though to our colonies in streams it flows . * # ' * * * Hero , work ' s ill pnid , tho worker ground to dust , And food k dear , and work and starve he must ! Old women , children , ghastly girls and wives , Are stitching , sewing , to prolong thoir lives ; Working in factories at the oursad mill , That grinds up flesh and blood—is never still ! Life is a rond of flints for suoli to tread : They ' re bom in sorrow , and in misery bred , That tho rich man should gather labour's fruits , To loll at oasu , and trout thorn worse than brutes ! The hungry monster , Want , huuta many down : Sotno to tho gaol ; and others on the town , To barter virtue for the moane to live , And part from nil that God and Nature give ! Then think , ye pure , orcjjpt ^ oojndeHm then * ' all , Your eons mixy ttteal , your lovoly ( laughters fall t " Jfeefi TtoiltffM , Prite QUe for Four Voices . Comjioaort by a . W . Mnrtlu . The Obsron Walt * on Airs in Weber ' a celebrated Opera , Uy W . Wilson . Jion't Come Cate ; Ballad , lly Al « xita < lorBtnoey . Those three isBuea by tho " Music-publishing Company , Limited , " are beforo us . Mr . Martin ' s Prize GUuoa ( iva we have had pooaaion to remark in oritiquoe on tho celebrated performances by 1 , 000 and 2 , 000 voices at Exetov Hall , & o ., ) avo among tlw Uneat of this class of

    composition ever written . " The Hemlock Tree , " ( words by Longfellow ) , and "The Evening Star , " for example , as specimens of exquisite melodic invention , are unique . The other pieces mentioned above also deserve

    commendation . . ... .-. ¦"¦" . " SERIALS . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ The National Quarterly Review . Edited by Edward J . Scars , A . B . No . I .: June : New York . —Pudney and Russell . — Tina is a new American Quarterly . Its " platform" it sets forth as follows : "to be the organ of no clique or party ; it will know no such distinctions as North and South ; it will be American in the broadest and rcoat : legitimate sense ; it will give occasional articles on permanent political questions of the day ; it will turn its attention to European as well as native literature . " The table of contents is attractive , and includes papers on " Buckle and Guizot ; " " Dante ; " " The Modem French Drama ; " " The Works of Charles Dickens ; " " Godwin ' s History of France ; " " The 19 th Century ; " " A Glance at the Fine Arts : " " Poems of Elizabeth B . Browning ; " " Italy , Past and Present ; " & c .

    JRlachwood ' s Edinburgh Magazine . No . 539 . September . London and Edinburgh : Blackwood and Sons . —Tho present number is a very good one . . It opens with an interesting contribution to current hiatory inthe shape of a graphic " Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel . " " King Arthur and his round Table" occupies a conr spicuous place in its contents . " Great Wits Mad Wits V . is a very suggestive paper ; " The Struggle at Melazza" possesses a high degree of local and contemporary interest ; and " The Romance of Agostitii , " "The Tower of London , " and " Norman Sinclair on Autobiography " are all good in their respective lines .

    JTraser ' s Magazine . No . 36 i ) . September . London : d . VV . Parker and San .---This magazine , in all the branches of the higher practical philosophy embracing-moral and social questions , stands at the head of Our periodical literature . With suchnames as those of Buckle and Mill in its list of occasional contributors , this might be taken for granted upon the credit of the writers whose papers fill its columns , without looking beyond the table of contents . The two authors we have mentioned , for example , are precisely the two authorities who , so far as can be inferred from published works , know more of social" science prdperlr so called , in all its vast depth and comprehensiveness , than any English writer whose productions on ah extensive scale Lave been placed before the public . . Indeed , the

    "History of Civilization in England" is one of those monuments not merely of erudition , of profound and universal research , but of scienti ^ fie grandeur of conception and originality of thought in the elaboration of those great principles which are destined , like the works of Bacon and Newton , to be immortal , and to be better appreciated and admired the more they are studied and understood . The present number contains ari interesting paper on psychical science , entitled "The Propensities according to Phrenology , examined ; by Alex . Bain . " "The Chronicle of current History" keeps us well posted up" on passing events ; " Creyll Grange" progresses with spirit through chapters 22 to 26 ; " France and Paris , forty , thirty , and twenty yearn ago , " is an attractive paper . And -there are several other excellent conti'ibutions .

    Maumillan ' s Mayazine , No . 11 . Sept , Cambridgo : Macmillan & Ce . The present Number opens with a paper on "The Future of Europe Foretold in History , " which is satisfactory as showing that the scienco of " Sociology " is beginning to be explored , even in the mere light and ephemeral publications of the day ; but unsatisfactory as showing that this scieuc-e , of more transeendunt importance as regards direct influence on human well-boing than all other sciences put together , is only at present in tho most rudimentary state . li Tin ? Life and Poetry of Shelley , " by the Editor , deserves to bo road with interest . Among the more importunt and instructive articles of the present Number before us , are "The Two Budgets of 1860 , " and "Tho Eulipae Expedition to Sp ain . " The " time-killing" portion of tho contents consist of chapters 26 and 27 of " Tom Brown at Oxford , " " Kyloe Jock and the Weird of Wanton Wails , " " ¦ Hints on Proposals , by an Experienced Ohaporonp , " and several othor diverting and rucy articles . Of course no periodical is complete , just now , without a dash of military matters , and , accordingly , we have a paper on " Volunteering , Past and Present . " Altogether the number is u good one .

    The Cornhill Magazine . No . 9 . Soptombor .- -London : Smith , Elder and Co . —This number opens with " Tho Four Georges , " paper 3 , on George the Third . Tho " Hogarth Papers" g ot on well . " Tho Druaea und the Maronibea" will bo read with interest anil attention ufc this juuoturo . Tho "Roundabout Papers' sustain thoir ohatly , tliscursive character . "Faunloy Parsonage" Ls " advanced u Bluyo , " as tlio Parliamentary i * eports say—namely through chapters iio , 20 , a "" ^ 7 . " Physiological Riddles" form tho material of a vory interesting and instructive , as well us amusing paper . And the number in its eiisamblo sustains the reputation of this poriodionl . Tho Eclectic , for September . London : Judcl and Glass . A paper on " Hugh Miller , " " Tho A ' menitios of tiooial Lifo , " "A Olussiual and Philoflophical Novel , " "A Run through Killarney , " " The Political Kt'twork , " are the temporal and secular urtiolun which , with various thoological ond biblical disquisitions , make up tho contents of the pnwwt number .

    Dull-in University Magazine , No . 333 , September . Dublin : \> . Robertson . —Tho dozen artiolos that make up tho tuble of ooulonlri ol tho prosont number present a very good luuntal bill of Jtt » 'i ? . " Thu Italian Regeneration possesses epeoiul iutorcfst at tho nreuunt tiuu . There are some good artioloa on local topic * 5 a paper on Sir Ohm-Ion and Ludy Morgan , and various contributions , iibo . Vtf t | io avora'go pf magazine writing . - , ¦ ¦ , Tho Art Journal . No . 0 l > . Soptvuihcr . London and >\»\ v York : Virtue and Co . —Thin excellent eeriul comen out with a very # ood numbor . foi Septombov . Tho engravings aivCopley ' s picture ol' " Tlic Koviu Princossoa , children of Goorgo III . ; " "Turno ^ s'Puuoo / ' " JBui'iul ol Wilkio , " irom tho picture in the National Gallery \ uncl ' Preparing for tho 3 ath , " by Bolfe , from Gibaon ' B statue in possession of tho JCarl of Yarlxwough , The last ia a dclioioua moroeau , The wood outs also , nr < 5 oxooll ^ nt , » nd tho lottorproaa equally oreditablo .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091860/page/12/