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      " Handbook of London , " which contains every kind of information that can be useful to . the visitor , including 1 literary , scientific , and art institutions , London libraries and galleries of art . The environs of London are also included in the survey , with the hospitals of Chelsea and Greenwich , and the dockyards of Deptford and Woolwich .

      Nov. 10, 1860] The Saturday Analyst And ...

      Nov . 10 , 1860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 929

      Stories, Old And New.* Rtvhe Work Before...

      STORIES , OLD AND NEW . * rTVHE work before us , entitled ¦ " The Adventures of Gooroo JL Simple , " and which is most expensively got up , and elaborately adorned with illustrations by Crowquill , is evidently intended as a satire upon the Brahmans ; their assumption of wisdom , and learning , and absurd prejudices , in favour of caste . Their authorship is uncertain ; Father Beschi , an Italian , belonging to the Propaganda Order of the Society of Jesus , afterwards appointed by the Pope to the East India Mission , and to whom we are indebted for a Tamul text of these singular narratives , being considered by man } '" the original inventor of them , his object being to render the religion and priesthood of the people with whom he fraternized both contemptible and ridiculous . Others , discarding this opinion , attribute them to the followers of Buddhism , and seek rather to trace their origin to the Vallaoran Pariars , a sect particularly despised by the Brahnians , because they set at naught some of the prejudices and conventionalities of the Hindoo tribes , and who took this covert way of conveying to the people their hatred and defiance of their ignorant and arrogant opponents , Be this us it niaj-, certain it is that to Father Besehi we owe the collecting together and rendering into the same language ' theso very amusing-and exciting lampoons upon the vaunted intellectual acquirements j of the Brahmans . j The storey told in the first chapter ' is remarkably trite and j funrry , and we do not think any one will read it through without ' indulging in hearty tits of laughter . Tho Venerable Gooroo Simple , accompanied by his live disciples , JToodte , Doodle , Wiseacre , Zany , and Foozle , going out upon a certain day to administer spiritual consolation and instruction to the faithful of his flacky returning about midday , iinds himself upon the bank of a streum , the which ho should ford before arriving at his mattam , or cell , the residence of himself and followers , when those respectable functionaries are politely signified to be ' at home . " The Gooroo , however , being 1 remarkable for his wisdom , and having heard some very Ugly stories relative to the danger of crossing' this same stream in one of its wakeful moods , determines tawuit until such time as it shall have subsided into a calm , and death-like sleep , when he calculates with his five disciples to pass safely over to the opposite bank . He accordingly deputes his favourite Wiseacre to ascertain j . the state of the treacherous stream ; the . 'hitter , approaching the river , according to instructions , on tiptoe , immerses a burning brand , brought for the }) urpose , in the water , which , by a very natural conjunction of opposing- elements , emits a hissing noise ; which noise the promising disciple accepts as a sufficiently convincing proof that tho river is still awake and roaring 1 for its prey . The second time this hopeful recipient of the holy Gooroo ' s extraordinary wisdom approaches the river , he touches it with the extinguished brand , when , of course , tho ominous sound which before saluted his car , is no longer perceptible , and he , therefore concludes that the time has arrived tor his beloved master to make his escape from his present uncomfortable position . They accordingly all cross over to the further bank . There , however ,, another difficulty presents itself . It suddenly occurs to Wiseacre that , whereas six decidedly went into the- river , there arc peceptiblc to his ocular vision only five that have come out of it . True , there stands before him the Gooroo , Noodle , Doodle , Zany , and Foozle , but what has beepmo of tho sixth P Tho puzzled tyro appeals to his superior ; but the worthy Gooroo is so absorbed in tho contemplation of his own learning , and is , moreover , so self-oblivious , and regardless of his bodily comforts , that ho lias become happily unconscious of tho existence of such a person as number one , and consequently cannot bo expected to offer any satisfactory solution to tho enigma . For the manner in which tho party are extricated from thin and all their subsequent dilemmas wo refer the reader to tho work itself , recommending it us one of tho best Christmas books of the season , adapted to ail ' ord much information and amusement alike to adults us to tho more juvouilo members of tho rising generation . A now odition of Warburton's " Darien \ or , Tho Mcrcmaint Prince , " is just published , forming the thirteenth volume of Hurst and lilaokott ' s now series of novels . Tho excellence of this work is ho well known as to require but little comment . The story , which possesses all tho elements of popularity , is most skilfully devised , and elaborately worked out . Tho scene is laid severally iu Great Britain , Spain , and , Amoricn , and introduces us to to a goodly | number of historical porsonngos , buccaneers , < ko . '' Tho puriod iH during' tho reigns of his IVlost Catholic Mnjost y Ferdinand of Spain , and James tho Second of England ! and tho bigotries of the former sovereign , and the terrors of tho Inquisition , then in full ibreo throughout Inn dominions , tiro powerfully—oven fearfully , dolinoatocl . In an early part of tho volume throo Mariscoos , descendants of tho former possessors of tho land , a raeo at tho time of tho story almost exterminated from tho soil , coino under tho suspicion of tho Weorot Tribunal j and after undergoing tho most frightful and pro- ' tructod tortures , tho moans for inilioting which the Holy-ofnoo was

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      so ingenious in devising , at length fall victims to Jesuitical hatred and superstition . The language here , as indeed throughout the production , is in the highiest degree eloquent and illustrative of the subject , and calculated to impress the reader ' s imagination , vividly and distincly , with the horrors the author is depicting . Seldom have we read a novel so exciting , and so admirably sustained from the commencement to the end ; or where so inuch poetic power was displayed , with so little tendency on the part of the writer to introduce the same to the detriment of his story . The next work upon our list is an elegantly-bound volume of tales , entitled the " Illustrated Boys' Own Story Book , " in which the illustrations are sufficiently select and numerous to secure it , apart from any other consideration , a favourable reception from the more juvenile portion of the public . All these tales are of a superior order , and are , moreover , constructed upon the excellent principle of conveying to youth as much information as possible , under the most pleasing and alluring aspect . Consequently , we find that in all these heat little fictions the compiler has taken care to combine an equal amount of instruction and amusement ; and we have no doubt that that they will be found invaluable to the class of readers for whom they are especially intended . Among- the tales we can particularly recommend to our juvenile brethren , are the " Boyhood of Du Gueselin , " the " Story of a Great Man who was a Cobbler , " and the " Anecdote of Joseph the Second , Emperor of j Austria . "

      I Fkench Works On Political Economy. It ...

      I FKENCH WORKS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY . IT proved a misfortune , aud a very serious one , for the science of political economy , that it was born in an age of scepticism , and cradled , so to say , amidst the licentiousness of the most depraved Court in Europe . 0 , ' itesnay , our reapers will no doubt remember , resided at Versailles under the leign of Madame de Pompadour , and the theories which he propounded on the origin and distribution of riches were conceived and discussed at a time when philosophy was the only science deemed worthy of attention , and when all philosophy was reduced to the grossest sensationalism . This circumstance , we repeat , proved a real misfortune to the science of political economy ; and even at the present day that branch of hum an learning is connected , in the mind of many people , with the brutal schemes which the philosophers of the last century endeavoured to construct upon the Unsafe foundation of selfishness . Surely , some assert , the connection between labour and capital , the question of wages , the problems of industry , have nothing whatever to do with ethics , especially with , sj ) iritualis » i . Buy in the cheapest market , sell in the dearest , such is the maxim which is at the basis of political economj ^ , and we should like to know how such a maxim can bo forced into tho remotest affinity with those " aiiy nothings" which are the constant topics for the cavillings of metaplvysieians and moralists . To those doubts—to these . questions , M . Antonin Rondelet has lately | offered a twofold answer ; * tho one , couched in a didactio form , and more particularly addressed to philosophers ; tho other , thrown into the shape of a tale , and designed to popularise the axioms and precepts discussod by the first . Wo cannot deny that the great extension lately given to industry aud to industrial science by the French Government , whilst everything relating to the manifestation and free development of thought is systematically discouraged , —we cannot deny that such , an oxtonsion has produced in many instances a reaction against all topics more or less connected with the results of more manual'labour . It is seen , by noblo minds , that the elegant refinements of luxury and tho wonders of applied soienoo are far from incompatible with a state of thorough moral dissolution , and that if , after all , tho wonderful results wo sea cvory clay nro only destined to establish among us tho reign of matter , tho triumph of positivism , the ond attainod is not worth all tho trouble , all the ingenuity displayed in pursuing it . We do not know whother tho French Academic 'des Sciences morales f t . / to / itirjttfs was acting under this impression when it proposod as tho subject of : ono of its prizes , tho following question : " To doterminato tho relations which exist between ethios and political oojnomy ; " but tho volume of M . llondclot , which received tho prize , is undoubtedly tho host attempt that has hitherto been made to explain thoso relations , to provo thoir validity , and to show that whorovcr they aro not rooognisod , tho . woionoo of political ooonomy must sink- to tho dogradod position of a fow rules about barter and sale . Descartes , by applying algebra to goomutry , eroatod anew branch of mathematical scumco . M . ltondolot thinks that tho time Juts come likewise of giving a now impetus to social scionco , by bringing metaphysics tuul ethics to boar upon the solution of economical questions ; tho problems which he analyses , tho facts which ho omilnerutoH , are precisely tuocu which every ono can find exumined in tho works of Adum Smith and J . B . Bay ; it in thu hIiui . I point from which they aro troatod that is new , for our author undoi'takos to provo , contrary to tho generally received opinion , that tho most essential difficulties relating' to political ooonomy aro only Holyod by moral philosophy , and in nowise by tho oxporiiuuntal study of social facts . His work is subdivided into four books , oorroHnonding to tho lour groat divisions of political oooiiomy , viz ., l » t , 1 roduotion ; 2 nd , Kxchango ; 3 rd , Consumption ; 41 h , i « xos . _ It would bo , of course , impossiblo for us to follow M . Bondolot

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      * Da Spiritual /* , ^ on Jieonomie PoUUqw , Vnt M . Antonin Boadolot . 8 vo . Va J & , $ rot d'AHtofnc , oh Won , iffiffr * » * «»« ' * *«»«•«<• PoliUqna . Pur U . Antonin Komlolol , 6 vo . Purls i Dlfliei ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111860/page/9/