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    August 6,1853] THE LEADER. 763

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    U 1. " , BURTON'S SCOTTISH HISTORY, 1(58...

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    them—why they began , and for what reason they continue the indulgence . In truth , few have thought of these points—have cared to analyze their sensations when under the narcotic influence of tobacco—or , if they have analyzed them , would care to tell truly what kind of relief it -is which they seek in the use of it . .. •« In habitual smokers , ' says Dr . Pereira , ' the practice , when employed moderately , provokes thirst , increases tlie secretion of saliva , and produces a remaa'kably soothing and tranquillizing effect on the mind , which has made it § o much admired and adopted by all classes of society , and by all nations , civilized and barbarous / . ... . With some constitutions it never agrees ; but both our author and Dr . Christison , of Edinburgh , agree that ' no well-ascertained ill effects have been shown to result froin the habitual practice of smoking / " Every smoker will read this paper with , great interest . Fraser has various attractions this month , we must pause to quote this : — NEEO . —A PICTURE . " Unuatural light awakes the midnight sky ! The faces of the marble Gods of Rome [ Flush and turn red around each lofty dome , And Tiber's current glimmers hideously ! And now the portals of the night Start asunder with flashes bright!—Frantic figures , to and fro , Rush through the golden hell below ! Flames wrap the city , like a new-born sea , — The Mistress of the World shrieks in her agony ! What mortal fiend holds orgie at this hour ?—Hark to yon harp , whose chords no cry can drown , Swayed by a naked maniac in a crown , Who sits , midst rolling clouds , upon a tower ! Forwai'd he bends with flying hair , And tiger clasp of limbs all bare ; Splendours , terrors , clamours , screams , Make real his devouring dreams ; The while , with voice that pierces through the roar , He sings of burning Troy and Death ' s insatiate shore !" Space compels us to postpone till next week Bentley , Tait , Hogg ' s Instructor , the British Journal , and the serials .

    August 6,1853] The Leader. 763

    August 6 , 1853 ] THE LEADER . 763

    Books On Our Table. History As A Conditi...

    BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . History as a Condition of Social Progress . By Samuel Lucas , M . A . John Murray Biped * and Quadruped * . By Harry Hieover . " ' . ¦ ¦ F . C . New by . On the Imminent Depreciation of Gold , and Mow to Avoid Lots . By William Austin . E Wilson . Life of William Lord Russell . By Lord John Bussell . Fourth Edition . Longman and Co . Moneypenny ; or , the Heart of the World . By Cornelius Matthews . Clarke , Beeton , and Co . Emigrants' Letters from Australia . By Samuel Mossman . Addey and Co . John at Same : A Novel . By Stanley Herbert . 3 vols . F . C . Newby . Lives of the Laureates , By WvS . Austin , Esq ., and John Ealph , Esq . Bentley . Master and Man . By Henry Booth . John Chapman . Christine Van Amberg : A Tale . By the Countess D'Arbouville . Translated by M . B . Field . T . Boaworth . A Complete Practical Grammar of the Hungarian Language . By J . Csuclt . Williams and Norgate . Charles JDelmer . A Story of the Day . 2 vols . " . K . Bentley . Social and Political Morality . By William Lovett . Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . A Summer ' s-Day Dream . With Other Poems . By H . F . Eobinson . W . Pickering . A Satire for the Age . —The Transcendentalistx . By Archer Gurney . T . Bosvvorth . Chaff ; or , the Yankee and Nigger at the Exhibition . E . Stanford . The Camp of 1853 ; with Hints on Military Matters for Civilians . By C . MacFarlane . T . Bosworth . Speeches , Parliamentary and Miscellaneous . By the Right Hon . Thomas Babington Macaulay . 2 vola . Henry Vizetolly . Sketches and Characters ; or , the National History of the Human Intellects . By James William Whitocross . Saundora and Otley . A Man made of Money ; and The Chronicles of Clovernook . By Douglas Jorrold . Bradbury and Evans . The Angel and Trumpet . By John Burnett . W . Kent and Co . Hufeland ' s Art of Prolonghig Life . Edited by E . Wilson . John Churchill . Healthy Skin .- a Popular Treatise on the Skin and Hair . By E . Wilson . John Churchill . The Parlour Library . —The Forgery . By G . P . K . James . Simms and Mclntyro . Sketches in Ultra-Marine . By James Ilannay . 2 vols . Addey and Co . The Dublin University Magazine . James McGlashim . St . George . A Miniature Romance . By II . Jennings . W . W . Wright . The Encyclopedia JBritannica ; or , Dictionary of Arts , Sciences , and General Literature . Vol . II . Adam and Charles Black . Tait ' s Magazine . Partridge and Oalcoy . The North British Review . W . P . Kennedy . JJlackwood ' s Edinburgh Magazine . W . Blackwood and Sons . The Poetical Works of Robert Sonthey . Collected by Himself . Vol . 1 . Longman and Co . The Story of Mont Blanc . By Albert Smith . David lioguo . Eraser ' s Magazine . J . W . Parker and Son . The British Quarterly Review . Jackson and Walforct . The National Miscellany . J . II . Parker . English Cyclopaedia . lWt III . Conducted by Charloa Knight . Bradbury and EvaiiH . Jileak House . B y Ohnrlon Dickons . Bradbury and Kvatm . Handley Cross ; or , Mr . Jorrocka ' s Hunt . Part V . Bradbury and EvitiiH . Writings of Douglas Jerrold . —The Chronicles of Clovernook . Punch Oflicn . Bentley ' s Miscellany . It , Bontloy . The DoM Family Abroad . No . XII . Chapman and Hall . ¦ Hoffff ' s Instructor . James IIo # g . Milton ' s Poetical Works . With Life , Critical Dissertation , and Explanatory Notes . By Uio Kov . G . GiHHlan . 2 Vols . James Niehol . Thornton ' s Poetical Works . With Life , Critical Dissertations , and Explanatory Notes . 3 ty tho Kov . G . Gilnllan . JanioH Niehol . Tit for Tat , for Juvenile Minds . W . and F . G . CuhIi . 1 foets of England and America . Whitfcakor and Co . n » A ¦ DecHne < ifL { fc in Health and Disease . By I ) . Van Ovon , M . D . . Tol » n Churohill . The Charm . J > . Addey and Co . The Picture Pleasure Book . Addey and Co .

    U 1. " , Burton's Scottish History, 1(58...

    U 1 . " , BURTON'S SCOTTISH HISTORY , 1 ( 580—17 / 18 . History of Scotland , from tho Revolution to tho TJ . vlinction of the last Jaeobila Insurrection , 1 ( 580—1748 . By John Hill Burton . 2 voIh . " Longman and Co . Mit . Bujixon has produced a solid and lucid work on an important , although not strikingly interesting portion of Scottish History ; those sections of it , such as tho Jacobite insurrections , which have a more ; dramatic and universal interest , being tho portions of Scottish History which , from memoirs , novels , and disquisitions , have lost much of their freshnoss and charm to tho public . He has performed hit ) task , however , with groat and impartial ability ; research in his hands never degenerates into pedantic trifling ; history never loses its dignity in pamphleteering ,

    or ad captandum encroachment into the province of the novelist . If not brilliant , he is never dull , always readable , always worth reading . The facts are well massed , the narrative threading through them in an easy unforced manner . An excellent index facilitates reference . In judging of the execution of this work we judge as one of the public ; no means have we of settling its absolute' value in point of historical fidelitv ; but those better versed than we pretend to be in Scottish ,

    History assure us Mr . Burton ' s learning is as sound as it is extensive . What Mr . Burton seems to make clear beyond dispute is the national nature of the movement towards the Union of Scotland with England , and the want of evidence for that " corruption" said by Jacobite writers to have been so largely practised * and to have been so preponderating an influence . That there was much money spent , and great exertions made , are undeniable ; but it is not clear that corruption , in any strict sense of the term , was much of a determining influence .

    He also clears away much of what Homance has woven mythically around the Jacobites and their cause ; but here , as elsewhere , the reader will be struck with his calm impartiality . To give an idea of his style we select from his account of the famous Cameronians , or Hillmen : — " The ruling principle among-these men was the simplest and the broadest or all human principles—that which has more or less guided mankind in all ages and all , conditions of society —in despotisms , oligarchies , and democracies—among Polytheists , Mohammedans , Jews , and Christians . It was the simple doctrine , that I am right and you are wrong , and that whatever opinion different from mine is entertained by you , must be forthwith uprooted . By another way oi describing the relative position of parties , the Cameronians were the select people

    of God and his chosen instruments ; while all who differed with , or opposed them , were the children of perdition . They took their creed from the New Testament , but their associations and religious revellings were all in the Old ; and if the tone of their writings were held as a sufficient indication , it might be said that they coldly adopted the one as a formal test , but that their souls yearned after the older dispensation , as a practical embodiment of their own proud , fierce , and exclusive tempers . They loved the parallels which it afforded them , in the day of oppression and bondage , followed by that of victory and extermination ; and though their faith bound them to the milder dispensation , their sympathies ever unconsciously fell back on those self-sufficient and tyrannical attributes , which the principles of toleration have counted antagonistic to Christianity instead of fundamental to it .

    " The Hillmen , as they were isolated by the Privy Council and the dragoons from the social intercourse of their kind , isolated themselves by a far stricter spiritual cordon . The more bitterly showered on them , the torrent of temporal penalties , the more sternly did they retaliate , by cutting off the wicked , and dooming them , on principles satisfactory to themselves , and with a perfect assurance of their judgment being effective—to perdition . Gradually they drew the circle narrower and narrower . Popery , the original enemy against whom they inherited an old feud from the early Scottish reformers , was , like Buddhism or Mohammedanism , too far off to be deemed practically a hostile power . Prelacy was nearly in the same position in a religious sense , though its close practical position , and the actual bleeding wounds daily received from it , made it beyond a doubt a practical

    grievance . What they were more deeply concerned with , however , was the class of presbyterian clergymen who had lost their own souls , and the souls of their unfortunate followers , by accepting the Indulgence granted in a sort of penitential alarm by the persecuting government , when it found that men could not be sent from one church to another by command , like troops changing quarters . But there was a left-handed defection , which grieved the righteous souls of the Hillmen even more than the acceptance of the Indulgence , because it came closer home to them . This was found among the class who , though they might be earnest , even to stripes , and bondage , and blood , for liberty of conscience to themselves , admitted the soul-destroying principle of toleration , and would give like liberty of conscience to the rest of mankind —yea , eyen to their persecutors—and open a

    door to blasphemy and heresy , and all the corruptions which they had in common , with the testimony of their blood , sworn to extirpate . A considerable number of the presbyterian party were ready at least to tolerate the moderate episcopalians , and were thus extremely offensive to the Cameronians . But there was still a nearer circle of enemies , severed from them by a very little distance , but that distance disclosed a chasm . These persons thought that the presbyterian system wan that appointed by God , and that it ought to bo supreme , and all others should bo trampled under it ; but , while holding this ecclesiastical opinion , and not on principle disinclined to execute it , if they had the power , they were not ready , at

    that precise moment of feebleness and humiliation , to come forward as the arbiters of the world's destiny , and , smiting with tho sword all who opposed thoin , reject toleration for themselves , while- th « y denounced its extension to others , and dealt with every government not strictly covenanting , as a government contrary to God ' a will , which ought not to bo permitted to exist . This was , however , what tho Cameronians deemed their immediate function , and in itH performance they isolated themselves from the ; rest of their countrymen , throwing defiuneo in tho teeth of all parties , and iirinly believing that , like the Jews in the wilderness , they were some dny soon to inarch in triumph to an entire supremacy over the nations of tho earth .

    " The name of this party lives in tho present day , associated , oddly enough , with a ( lushing regiment inheriting a long history of brilliant exploits . Even in its curly days , however , its warlike character was , as wo shall find , supremo . J ' enco and submission wore far from tho habits and thoughts of Cameron ' s followers . With all their deeply Boated devotion , it must be noticed that they were by no means docile followers of spiritual teachers . TJhoy were tho kind of church which constitutes itself , and selects u clerical representative , not that which , acknowledging tho separate and superior order of the priesthood , humbly obeys ita directions . " " " And this also from tho account of TiriO 01 , 13110 Y OV TilK ItEVOLTJTIOtf .

    " Before concluding this sketch of tho religious snMlenient of tho Uovolution , a few words may bo offered on the Hocial and intellectual character of tho Revolution clergymen . A glance at their literary position discloses tho and intellectual huvoo < if the ago of persecution . Tho ministers of the Revolution wore no more n fair Hnccimon of tho literary fruit of tho presby termn system , tlmn tho fugitives of a routed forco are a fair wpecimeu of tho discip line and morality of , aru » y . To

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1853, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06081853/page/19/