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      An American Poet. Poems. By Thomas Bucha...

      ¦« T ^ en . I asked her loved me , and our hands met each in each , And the dainty , sighing ripples seemed to listen up the reach ; While thus slowly with a hazel wand she wrote along the beach , " Love , like the sky , lies deepest ere the heart is stirred to speech / « Thus I gained the love of Inez—thus I won her gentle hand j And our 9 -paths how lie together , as our foot-prints on the strand ; We have vowed to love each other in the golden morning land , When , our names from earth have vanished , like the writing from the sand !" A variation of the same air isiieard in this : — ' " When the Spring ' s delightful store Brought the blue-birds to our bowers , And the poplar at the door Shook the fragrance from its flowers , Then there came two wedded doves , And they built among the limbs , And the murmur of their loves Fell like mellow , distant hymns , There , until the Spring had flown , Did they sit and sing , alone , In the broad and flowery branches . ^ " With the scented Summer breeze How their music swam around , Till my spirit sailed the seas Of enchanted realms of sound ! ¦ « Soul / said I , ' thy dream of youth Is not fancy , nor deceives , For I hear Love ' s blissful truth Prophesied among the leaves ; Therefore till the Summer ' s flown Sit and sing , but not alone , In the broad and flowery branches / " Then the harvest came and went , And the Autumn marshalled down All his host , and spread his tent Over fields and forests brown ; Then the doves , one evening , hied To their old accustomed nest ; One went up , hut drooped and died , With an arrow in its breast—Died and dropped ; while there , alone , Sat the other , making moan , — r In the broad and withering branches /' And so on through the volume he chants of Nature and of Love—the only things known to him , and those not with any depth of experience . But one so rarely hears a strain of music , that welcome must be given to Buchanan Bead , whose maturer volumes may earn for him a permanent position .

      Ai>Fcn. 3, 1852.] The Leader. 32 *

      Ai > fcn . 3 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 32 *

      Books On Our Table. The Portrait Gallery...

      BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The portrait Gallery of Distinguished Peets ^ Philosophers ^ Statesmen , Divines , Painters , Architects , Engineers , Sfc . With . Biographies originally published by the Society lor the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . Parts'I . and II . W . S . Orr and Co . Eveby one is familiar with the Gallery of Distinguished Men whose portraits and memoirs were published by Charles Knight , under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . The original cost was seven guineas . Messrs . Orr and Co . now re-issue the work in monthly parts at half-a-crown , which will bring the whole within three pounds . Amateurs can limit themselves to single parts , if their means forbid their taking in the whole gallery . Each part contains uovon steel engravings , with memoirs . Dante , Petrarch , Boccaccio , Wiclif , Chaucer , Lorenzo de Medici , and Cardinal Ximenes , form Part I . Bramante , Leonardo da Vinci , Erasmus , Copernicus , Ariosto , Michael Angelo , and Sir Thomas More , are in Part II .

      Letters from Italy and Vienna . Macmillan and Co Pmusajtt letters , worth reading in a leisure half hour , but claiming no serious attention . The ground hns been trodden too often before ; and our anonymous traveller , though an agreeable companion , has little novelty to sot before us . The Book Case . No . I . Across the JRocicy Mountains front Now York to California By William Kelly . Sims and M'Intyro The speculative publishers of the first of the cheap libraries ( The Parlour Li brary ) , Messrs . Sims and M'Intyre , have commenced a new series , under the title of The Booh Case , which is to include works of Biography and Travel . The volume is handsomer than the Parlour Library , and printed in far better typo . Wo should suggest the addition of Science to the departments already contemplated . Good books wo are certain will pay . Mr . Kelly ' s spirited " Hide across the Rocky Mountains , " which opens the Heries , has already been reviewed by us wxth grea t favour , and we have now only to announce it .

      The Four Primary Sensations of the Mind . A Brief Essay . By John Bell , Sculptor Chapman and Hall A little tract which can bo road in half an hour , and will clear up subjects that ' « nvo porlmpg puzzled the metaphysician for years . It is an essay on tho Sublime ami tho Beautiful , with their correlates tho Hidiculous and tho Unvlcnsing . It would lead , us too far to ontor into the discusisrion , and wo simply indicate to bur ¦ eaaors the existence of tho essay , which wo command to their notice . ' '

      Vosnos : a Sketch of a Physical Description of tho UnivorBO . By Aloxandor von ilumboldt . Tranalatod from tho Gormati !> y E . O . Ottd and B . It : Paul . ( Bohn ' s Scientific Library . ) Vol . IV . H . G , Bohn . a " l . ^ mo COn « lu < los tho uranologioal portion of Humboldt ' s vast attempt at i \ | ^ description of tho universe ; and although , aa in former volumes , wo « na frequent repetitions , yet tho multitude of its . facts , leads us dolightcd to tho ^ c pag e , in spito of tho nbHonco of that philosophic grasp of tho subject which tho nft ^ ' iT i * * ° nrtvo « Tho book , wo bolievo to bo greatly ovorratod , but people aro am hint tho dissatisfaction they feel . Tho section on tho nebula i » ospoohdly

      interesting , though something more distinctly expressive of his own views might have been desirable . Self-Control . By Mrs . Brunton . ( Eailwai / Library . ) George Eoutledge and Co . "What need be said of Mrs . Brunton ' s well thumbed novel now-a-days ? That it is added to the list of cheap amusing books known as the Railway Library . Two Stories for my Young Friends . By Fiances Brown . " . ¦ : p ^ ton and Bitchie , Edinburgh . Feances Bkown , the poetess , has here given children two little stories which , on the authority of children , we pronounce delightful . The Eric & son * is the favorite in one quarter ; but in another the claim is set up for The Clever Boy : or , Consider AnotJier . Parents and guardians will settle the question by buying the little volume and leaving it with the young critics .

      life of Constantino the Great . By Joseph Fletcher . A . Cockshaw . Another volume of the Library for tlie Times . It is an elaborate historical biography in small compass ; well suited to its purpose , but labouring under that very common deficiency—the want of an index . Midland ' s History of the Crusades . Translated from the French . By W . Eohson . In three volumes . Vol . I . George Houtledge and Co . When we consider the immense historical significance of the Crusades , and its romantic interest as a subject for the picturesque historian , it seems astonishing that our literature can boast of no better account than the lifeless inaccurate work

      of Mills , and perhaps even more astonishing that no one should have thought of translating Michaud ' s admirable book—a book that all Europe has accepted . Mr . Robson deserves encouragement for producing this work . He has translated it carefully , and avoided the unseemly imitation of French idioms which generally clings by translators . On the completion of the work we shall notice it at length . Battles of the BritisJi Navy . By Joseph Allen , R . N . New Edition , revised and enlarged . In 2 vols . ( Bohn ' s Illustrated Library ) . Vol . II . H . G . Bohn . The second volume of Allen ' s spirited history embraces this century , or rather the first forty years of it , for since the operations on the Syrian coast there have been no Battles of the British Navy . The plates are numerous , and two ample indexes , one of names and one of events , are added—as usual with Mr . Bohn ' s volumes . Excellent Mr . Bohn , how the student recognises this care for his wants ! Claret and Olives ; from the Garonne to the Rhone . By Angus B . Reach . D . Bogue . Walks and Talks \ of ' an American Farmer in England . ¦ „ , D . Bogue . The Home Circle , for April . W . S . Johnson . Who are the Friends of Order ! By Rev . C . Kinsley , Jun . E . Lumley . On the Management of Ships' Boats . By W . S . Lacon . Parker , FunuvaU , and Co . THe Enthusiast , or Straying Angel . A Poem . By James Orton . William Pickering . Cuvillion Fleury •' Portraits . __ „ Politiques et Bevolutionnairea . 2 vols . W . Jells . Royal Military Magazine . W . Kent and Co . The Bookcase—Panorama of St Petersburg . By J . G-. Kohl . Sinans and M'Intyre . The Parlour library—Pictures ofLifeL By Mary Howitt . Simms and M'Intyre . Periodical Savings applied to Provident purposes . By A . Robertson . W . S . Orr and Co . Report of the Liverpool Domestic Minsion Society . E . T . Wmtfield . Essay of Gold and Silver Wares . By A . Ryland . Smith , Elder , and Co . TJie Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology . John Churchill . T /> e British Journal . , Aylott and Jones . Fraser's Magazine . John W . Parker and Son Household Narrative . Conducted by Charles Dickens , 10 , Wellington-street , North . Biographical Magazine . > J . Passmore Edwards , NewQuarterly Review . No , II . Hookham and Son . Bleak House . Part II . By Charles Dickens . Bradbury and Eyans . Writings of Douglas Jerrold—The Story of a Feather . Part III . „ Punch Office Mr . Sponge ' s Sporting 'lour . Part IV . Bradbury and Evans . Illustrated Exhibitor ' .. Part III . n John Cassill . Colfriirn ' s United Service Magazine , and Naval and Military Journal . Colburn and Co . Education in England . By F . Gasc . ^ T . Saunders . The Gardener's Record . R . Groombridge and Sons . TheDaltons . No . XXIV . By C . Lever . Chapman and Hall . Penny Maps . Part XXI . Chapman and Hall The Westminster Review . John Chapman . Chambers ' s Pocket Miscellany . Vol . IV . ' . W . S . Orr and Co . The Portrait Gallery . Part IV . W . 8 . Orr and Co . The Musical Times . Nos . XCIV . and XCV . J - - Novella . Handel ' s Oratorio . Wos . CXXXIII . and CXXXIV . J- A . ^ ° vollo . Jtuilway Library—Night Side of Nature . 2 Vols . By Catherine Crowo . Q . Eoutledg © and Co .

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      We Should Do Our Utmost To Encourage Tho...

      We should do our utmost to encourage tho Beautiful , for the Uacful encourages itself . —G-ohtiie .

      Comte's Positive Philosophy". By Gr. H. ...

      COMTE'S POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY" . By Gr . H . Lewes . Dart h—93 iograpf ) iraT . Ar the close of the Biographical History of Philosophy , after having traversed the great epochs of speculation , I endeavoured , in a few rapid touches , to sketch the position occupied byAuGUSTE Comtjg , the greatest thinker of modem times , and one whose doctrine is to the nineteenth century , something more than that which Bacon ' s was to the seventeenth ami eighteenth centuries . Imperfect and meagre as that sketch necessarily was in tho narrow limits of a concluding chapter , it has not been without its effect in exciting the curiosity of many thinkers , whom it has incited to a more intimate study of Comtk ; and I please myself -with the notion that a considerable public may be found eager to hear a more ample and more detailed exposition of the Positive Philosophy . A . long cherished intention to do this in some shape or other is now at last to be gratified . It is one of our noble human instincts that we cannot feel within us the glory and the power of a real conviction without earnestly striving to make that conviction pass into other minds . All propaganda is religious ; nil steadfast preaching of the truth , such as our minds decree it , is a human duty , a social instinct . Otherwise , why ruflle tho complacency of fools by demonstrating their absurdities ? Why draw upon oneself the harsh names and harsher constructions , tho acorn and bitterness of those from wliom we differ ? For my part , I owe too much to the influence of Auouste Comte guiding me through tho toilsome active yenrs , and giving

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1852, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03041852/page/19/