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      "following passages are of the highest significance : —" Man can , if he will , adapt himself to the laws of life and beaut j 3 and every departure from health , comeliness , and happiness , is but a thermometer of the violation ! of these laws . The first law to be obeyed , to render an organised being perfect , is , that the grrm from which it springs shall be complete in all its parts , and sound in its constitution . If we sow an acorn defective in some vital parts the seedling that springs up vill . be defective . If we 6 ow an acorn sound in ; all . its parts , only half ripened , or damaged by damp , drouth , or other causes , the seedling-will be feeble and die early . The same law applies to man . A second cause of beauty in man is obedience , not only to the former law , but also to this , that after birth , the food , light , air , and physical aliment must be supplied in due quantity , and the best suited to the constitution . A third cause is , obedience to the organic law , which ordains . that all the organs of the body shall be duly exercised . "

      W / ii / Should ire I ' roif n > r Fine Wi-af / iir < A Si . 'imon . Hy Charles Kinsley , M . A ., Hector of Coverley . J . J . linker : mi Son . It is a comfort to find , a sermon that can be read without a / Hiding the spirit and mortifying the flesh , and this is decidedly the case with the excellent discourse before us . Mr . Kingsley had . entertained religious and scientific doubts concerning the propriety of praying for fine weather , and he accordingly furnished his parishioners with an excellent epitome of the religious and philosophical aspects of the weather , in lieu of praying for a miraculous change . . lie told . them he did not believe the rain to be a Divine judgment or manifestation of

      anger , but , on'the ' contrary , an exhibition of Divine forethought and benevolence . That they were intended to compensate for the sniall rairi-fall of previous years , and . although likely to occasion temporary and partial mischief to the farmer , would , in the cud , prove serviceable to agriculture and the public health . He said , he could not-expect that the weather woxild be changed because ignorant men called for alteration—that wojufd upset the whole course of nature , and prose in the highest degree mischievous 3 and impressed . upon , his hearers the duty of believing that God had ordered all things well , and caused meteorological phenomena to succeed caeli other according to lawa that were wisely ami beneficently contrived .

      Ogt. 20, 1860] The Satiirday Analyst And...

      Ogt . 20 , 1860 ] The Satiirday Analyst and Leader . 883

      Serials. All Round The W~ Url.Il. An Lll...

      SERIALS . All round the W ~ url . il . An lllnstratnl Record of Yuihkj- 's . travels ' , and-Ailfriit-urvn . in . all Paris of the Ch / be . ' Edited l " iy \ V . F . Ain . swortli , Es « i ., l ' . K : G . S ., F .. SA-, & i ; .., l ' art 1 . London : Mureh , V 22 , Fleet Street , EC This is the first instalment of a publication which p . romisos to be one of the best of the kind ever brought out . The editorship is of itself a " material guarantee" of excellence in all that pertains to the literary department . The pictorial arrangements arc also evidently in good hands ; The . illustrations are numerous and interesting . The first portion of 57 large double column pages , is devoted to " Five Days at Jerusalem . " Tho principal illustrations of this portion are a " View of Jerusalem from the pool of Hezekiah , " " The Wuih'ng Place : Jews pray in" - at tho wall of the Temple of Solomon , " " The -Churchof the Iloly Sepulchre , " " The Gate of the Hospital of the Knights of St . John at Jerusalem , " " Tho Field ofjBtood in the Valley of llinnom , " " The Mosquo of Omar , on the site of the Temple . of Jerusalem , " " Xazuretlj , " " Bethlehem , " & c . The remainder of the Gi pages is occupied with a portion of the next subject of the work , namely , " Sicily as it i ? , " the illustrations- being " Tho Chapel of St . Rosalie , near Palermo , " " The Marina , or sea view at Messina , " " Costumes and inhabitants of Sicily , " " Kuins of Agrigcntum ( Girgenti ) , " " Viow of Syracuse , " " Mount Etna , viewed from Tauronnnium , "' "Stromboli , one of the Lipari Isles , " & . o . The typo is large , clear , and legible , and the whole getting up of tho work , in all its details , highly creditable to the projectors . The Edinburgh Review , Wo . 228 . October , 1 SG 0 . London : Longman and Co . —Tho present number . opons mlh an interesting nrtiolo on " Recent Geographical Researches ; " then wo have a long paper $ 11 the " Memoirs of tho Master of Sinclair , " which 1 veal 8 of tho Scottish Insurrection of 1715 . " Max Muljor ' s Ancient Sanskrit , Literature , " forms the subjeot of a popor wliieh will possess interest for tho oriental archaeologist , " Internalionul Law" is gono into as deeply as tho authorities in existonco will admit , but ( ho law of nations , ' like tho internal municipal luw of particular status , consists , nt present of tho more arbitrary oonventipnulisnts onteivcl into rnthor in the interest of the strongeat t . hnn upon considerations of justice and right . " The Cllurches of tho Holy Land » " " The Grand Jtomonstranoo of 1011 , and tho Arrest of Iho " Fivo Members ; " " Scottish County Histprinsj" and " The United . Statos , undor the . Proeidoncy of Mr . Buohanan , " are topics that nro discussed in important arlielcs . Tliero is a very interostin ;; paper on Dr . Forbes Winsluw's . work On Obseiiro Diseasoe of Iho Bruin nnd . Disorders of tho Mind . " Some of the Reviewor ' B obsorvntions nro striking- 'i'ho physician ,, ho suys , but too often socks in vain in tho lunutio ' e brain for any trace of disorganization . Ho knows , nevertheless , that uUorutkms of somo kind must exist , and attributes his failure to tlie conreeness of tho methods of oxnmination at present omployod . Tho scalpel alone will novcr find it out , und even the microscope as yet fails to detect departures from normal structure of so delicate \\ kind as those which are sullioient to overturn noble mindsj and wo entirely agree with Dr . Wimlow in believing that , in order to dotoot tho more subtle lesions of tho bruin , wo must cull in tho labours of tho Cuoimco-Gorobrul pathologist . Hii » B . Brodiohns shown that tho nervous substunco of tho brain is distinguished from all other tissues ( tho bonoa oxoeptod ) by tho ; vory largo proportion of phosphorus ¦ which it contains , amounting to no less than 15 per oont f m 100 , and if wo spoak of tho solid matter alone , tjio important position hold by this uliomionl agent in Iho brain ia atill moro apparont ^ no lose than 011 ctonth of tho whole being oompoaed of phosphorus . It is a wolMcnown ' fact thnt any laborious jxion ^ nl oxovciso , iivdood any protraoted oxortion of tho nervous system , results in a rlisohargo of large quantities of tlio phospluvtio aulta by ' moans of tlio kidneys > this oircjumatanoo taken togt tUer with tho romavkttblo kol thnfc in tlio brain of tlio adult idiot there is n very emull amount of nhpsphoniS" —nob more than iu thai ; of a child- * - points to the oonolueion that it plays n yepy important pni't in the

      substance of the mental powers . The curioiis and mysterious subject of' " iineonscious cerebration , " or to drop the physiological form , unconscious thought ^ referred to by Sir Benjamin . Brodie , in his " Psychological Enquiry , " is also adverted to . Altogether the present No . is rich in the number o £ important subjects contained in it ; CasselVs Illustrated Almanack for ; 1861 . London and New York . Gassell and Co . The issue of another yeai- 's almanack ( in the excellent style . of compilation and getting-up , both ia letterpress and illustration , by which the works brpught out by this firm are distinguished ) , reminds us we are a twelvemonth , nearer the final jonrney to that bourne whence , as we fancy we have heard remarked somewhere before , no traveller returns . No memento of this more appropriate than an almanack , which we would particularly recommend as a gift book for young ladies , who have been in the last year of their teens ever since 1850 .

      CassselVs Illustrated Family Paper . Part 34 ; Vol . 6 . New Series . October , 1860 . London and JS ew York : CassHl and Co . —This , excellent mvlanfie of light literature and instructive writing , combining every description .-of information as . well as amusing matter , is too well known to require much more than that we should simply reebrd the fact that tho present part is now to be had in its compact and convenient form . Among the excellent illustrations with which it teems is a portrait of the great Pierre Jeau de Beranger , accompanied by a concise biographical sketch of that favourite poet . . The Jjoadon Review . Oct ., I 860 . London : Hamilton , Adams , and Oo . —The present number of this quarterly contains a varied list of papers , to wit : —Articles-on " English , Literary and Vernacular , '' " Recent Discoveries in South Africa , " " . ituskin on Modern Painters , " " Henry Drummonrl , " " Italy in Transition , " "Ljbanon , the Druses and JSAaronites , " " . Sicily , " and several other topics of . interest .

      . !Xi:\V Work On- Souiax Axu Political S...

      . ! Xi : \ v Work on- Souiax axu Political Science . —We arc glad to learn that Mr . Henry James Slack , F . G . S ., Barrister ' at Law , has in the Press a w . o . iK " , entitled " The Philosophy of ¦' ¦ Progress in Social Affairs . " The book , will present an epitome of the principal facts , and arguments of . Social Science , and will touch upon all the ' prominent topics of the day , such as Political Rights . ; 1 he Position of Women ; the Prospects of Democracy ; National Education ; International Relations , and so . forth . As Mr . Slack is well known to a large number of our readers , his work which will be published by Messrs . Chapman and Hhll , will be looked for with interest . IiiTEiiATxraE . — The literary man who has made the pen a profession longest now alivo , is Cyrus lteddmg , who has been just fifty-five years in activity , and has probably written more than any living contemporary . He was personally acquainted with Lewis , Wolcofc , Topham , $ heridan , Canning , Scott , Wilson , Hogg , Moore , Campbell , & c , & c . j ¦ •¦ with numerous distinguished foreigners , and characters , not literary , but

      eminent in the arts and natural philosophy . lie mty be called a link between the men of the past and present in the samo profession . IIJ 3 first printed - essay bore data 1 SOJ-, and he is yet in health . Besidos contributing to most of the best known periodi « : als of tho past , and editing . above a hundred volume * , 'besides from thirty to forty of which ho was the author , ho established six newspapers , which he edited , in England , one his own . He also edited one in France , and was connected with five others in this country . Ho wrote in nearly all the principal periodicals up to 1852 . . What is more singular , ho set out in support of liberal principles when all was against thorn , and ho lived to see them triumphant when in his grey hairs . If any person is deserving of tHo pensions appropriated by Government to literature , surely a veteran likp this should long since hnvo boon noticed . Mr . Redding has a double claim , as one who has over ably supported liberal politic * while lie promoted elegant literature . It is to ba regretted that the publio voioo-lias not more p-owor in the ollotmont of publio pensions .

      Record Of The Week. Home And Coloxial. T...

      RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOME AND COLOXIAL . Tho out-flow of bullion from tho Bnnk oollurs continued through last week , tho total in hand being iU 15 ,-l < 25 , GL 3 , as ngainst # 15 , 8 GD , 088 , or 1 : 113 , 175 less . A similar drain appoura 1 o have bc-im going on in Franco , wlwi-o last month ' s stook was £ 18 , 305 , 000 , against £ 21 , 535 , 000 in tho preceding month . Foreign complications depressed tho funds aa tho week closed , they having fallen as low ns U 3 . Tlio gloomy prospect , politically and iumoy |> horiually , tho continued wot thrualoning what yot remains ungutherod of tho hurvpat , und tho thickoning

      complioul ions abroad , oontinuocl to depress tho funds as the weok opened . On Monday thoy lind fallen to Q ' ift . £ 151 , 000 had boon brought from Melbourne by tho Orwell . Tho roport ( hut Mr . Shoridmi Knowlos hud poriahod in tho Arctic , whiuh wus wrecked off tho const of Jutland , was , wo rojoico to say , totally without ; foundation . Tho Ballot Society has issued a report eotting forth what has been dono during tho piiel season , and vrlxnt in atill doing , mnd to bo dono , wllh tho view of bringing its " mission" to u successful issue .

      At the adjournod inquest on tho Stepney trngody , u verdict ofWjlfuI Murder has boon returned against Mullina . It has boon proposed by tho friend * of General Limorioioro , lo present , tluit hero with a sword , as 11 moiuonlo of Ins rooowfc uduovomonts . , , 1 p 11 A mooting was hold at , lWloy '« Uotol during the wook ( or tho purp ^ o £ p »^ ssingsym , Ul . ywl . li Dr . Uheom- 1 . 1 his labours lot tho Slavery cm wo . „ . , 4 , . P Tho oloae of lnul- wook was aha olmrno ( ni'Jr . inl by tho oponm / j of a

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1860, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20101860/page/11/