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      « The viBion " came upon mv sleep From-the p hantom-land of Dreams : And , with its prop hetic gleams , Sons- was sent me wild and deep , To tell all I did behold . The ethereal fire is warrn That stamped on my mind each form . Such nondescript lines as u O ershadowin g earth like thunder clouds , light nings : " or as « Enthroned there ; brows the recdrds of high And august thought that made of human names , '

      make one play strange tricks with accents . This of " august" for " augtist" we notice again in the previously quoted description of Homer : — « Shone o ' er his august countenance , as sheds , " which makes the Homeric face autumnal ; yet to prove that when the sad necessity of rhythm does not f orce him , Mr . Reade pronounces the word like all other educated Englishmen , we have only to quote this line : — # " All thought august that make us what we are , * where it is rightly accented .

      We have done . As far as the brief notice of a journal can convey an opinion of an author ' s claims , we have attempted to convey ours in this notice of John Edmund Reade , whom we find reviewed in the last Revue des Deux Mondes side by side with Tennyson and Elizabeth Barret Browning .

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      BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . Pertonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America , during the years 1799—18 ( 4 . By Alexander von Humboldt and ArinS Bonpland . Translated and Edited by Thomasina Ross . ( Bohn ' s Scientific Library . ) H . G . Bolin . This is r perhaps , the most valuable of all the works issued by Mr . Bohn . When the three volumes are complete we shall devote space to it commensurate with its importance ; but in the meanwhile announce to our readers , for their especial behoof « nd guidancg-as purchasers , that the book itselfJs " worth its weight in gold , " and that this compact edition has had the advantage of careful revision in its style , and has all the Spanish and Portuguese terms , phrases , and quotations which occur in the original translated into English—a very necessary precaution in a country where those languages are so little studied . The Odes of Pindar . Literally translated into English Prose by Dawson \ V . Turner , M . A . To which is adjoined a Metrical Version by Abraham Moore . ( Bohn ' s Classical Library . ) H . G . Bohn . Pindar we have tried to read in Greek , but could ' nt ; we have gallantly mounted the breach in English , but were always repulsed . In Greek the difficulty of the language , made us secretly fancy there must be something fine , could one but get at it ; in English the naked nonsense ' < stood confessed . " We are perfectly aware that there are lines and images to be quoted which have a certain Grecian splendour ; but in this Pindar is like the Old English Dramatists' beauties " lie scattered over heaps of rubbish .

      Here , however , for those who still think Pindar as Pindaric , Mr . Bohn issues two translations , one literal and prose , the other paraphrastic and prosy ; one useful as a " crib , " especially with itB notes ; the other for those who wish to read Pindar ,

      " In sounding song by Genius framed , " to apply its own elegant diction . The Literary Almanack . P . Edwards . This almanac is not quite what it professes—but another year ' s , which is promised as an improvement , wiay be more worthy of the title . On what principle the list of books published is compiled does not appear ; we missed several for which we looked . Among publishers , the name of James Watson is omitted . At least the sole publisher of a special class should be represented . The idea of the almanac is a good one , and deserves to be well and impartially executed .

      •* Woman ' s Journey Sound the World , from Vienna to Brazil , Chil , -inhiti , China , Iiindoatnn , Persia , and Asia Minor . An Unabridged Translation from the German of Ida Pfeiffor . with tinted engravings . National Illustrated Library . Madame Ida Pfeiffer ' s remarkable journey round the world is hero presented to the English reader in an idiomatic and unabridged translation , carefully executed . It is illustrated with tinted engravings of various remarkable « ites—some of . them , as the ¦ Nock Temples of Elora , conveying a very vivid conception of the scene , others of no peculiar merit .

      The United Industrial School of Edinburgh , A Sketch of its origin . Progress , and Practical Influence . A . uiul 0 . lHaok . i . wo , engravings of the Children at Work ( rendorod with a ltembrandtish effect of light and shade , perhaps we ought to say of shade and light ) , and asories oi papers explanatory of the objects of this useful school , constitute the substance of this pamphlet . The industrial feature is a part of education which practical Scotland takes the load in ; and on this account , apart evon from the bonovolence of tho objeot Bought tt prouxotod bv il ' thls pamphlet deserves

      The Bible our Stumbling Block and ' our Strength . John Chapman . We have here a thoughtful , well written " tract for the times" against Bibliolatry . Why it is anonymous we cannot tell . Shall we ever outlive the timidity which tolerates and cherishes an erroneous reverence , so long as writers who protest against the evil avoid Or evade the responsibility of their own advice ?

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      Nicaragua ; its People , Scenery , and Monuments . With numerous original Maps and Plates . By E . G . Squier , late Charge d'Affaires . Two Volumes . Longman , Brown , Green , and Co . Ramble * beyond Railways . By W . Wilkie Collins . Second Edition . Bentley . A Practical Treatise on the Disease of the Lungs and Heart . By W . H . Walshe , M . D . Taylor , Walton , and Maberly . Lebahn ' s German , in One Volume ; with a Key , Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . Edward Charlton ; or . Life Behind the Counter . A Tale Illustrative of the Drapery Trade , and the Evils of the Late Hour System . By Frederick Rosa . Henry Lea . The Companion-Shukspere . No . 2 , Richard II . Charles Knight . A Woman ' s Journey Round the World . By Ida Pfeiffer . National Illustrated Library .

      Donaldson ' s Latin Grammar . J . W . Parker and Son The History of the British Empire , from the Accession of James I . " By John Macgregor , Al . P . Chapman and Hall . Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and his Contemporaries . With Original Letters and Documents , in two volumes . By George Thomas , Earl of Albemarle . Bentley . Martin Toutrond ; or , Adventures of a Frenchman in London . By James Morier . Bentley . Biographical JVotice of JVieolo Paganini , with an Analysis of his Compositions , and a Sketch of the History of the Violin . By E . J . IVtis . Translated by Wellington Guernsey . Schott and Co . The Child ' s German Book . By A . H . N . Franz Thimen . Royal Military Magazine : The British Soldier . A Journal devoted to the Interest * of the United Services . By Lieutenant Colonel Hort . W . Hart and Co .

      Notes , Thoughts , and Enquiries . By Charles Chalmers . First Series . John Churchill . May I not Do what I Will witfi My Own . Considerations on the Contest between the Operative Engineers and their Employers . By Edward Vansittart Neale , of Lincoln ' s Iun . ¦¦ . . Bezer . Epitome of the Evidence on Church Rates . By J . S . Trelawny , Esq ., M . P . Theobald . The Poems and Ballads of Schiller . Translated by Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttpn , Baronet . Blackwood and Sons , Edinburgh . Introductory Lectures on the Opening of Owen's College , at Man-, chciter . T . Sowter , Manchester .

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      OLD MAN AND YOUNG . BY OOODWYN BAKMBY . TTnknit thy furrowed brows , Old Man , And loose thy puckered lips ; The golden sun gilds evening dun , Old earth the new dew sips ; And why shouldst thou die dark , Old Man , In pride of pomp or pelf , And scorn the beam which young eyes dream , Nor see the snake in self ? Say not , in treacherous tones , Old Man , That wisdom is in years , When on . the ground the seed is found Shed from the burnished ears ; And of those ears , thus shed , Old Man , The empty husks remain , While even the seed to spring in need Is old life young again . It is not childish talk , Old Man , Those dizzy dreams of youth , Whose rainbows ray , whose pinions play , Upon the brea th o f Tru th . : There ' s fount of colour deep , Old Man , From , which those rainbows rise . And curving springs whence plumy wings Soar singing to , the skies .

      Prate not so much of age , Old Man , 'Tis modest not , nor true ; There ' s even dust despised which must Be older far than you ; And think a moment , pray , Old Man , That power was old as Him Whose endless truth has ever youth , Whose love grows never dim . And hast thou ever read , Old Man , How Youth came from the skies , And filled the morn on which ' twas born With oldest harmonies ; And taught that such as you , Old Man , Must yet be born again ; And , scorning wise all ancient lies , Held children up to men .

      Shake not thy palsied head , Old Man , It readeth thus to me : Immortal Truth , eternal Youth , Are one in harmony ; Truth never dies , mark well , Old Man , We die to Truth and Love : The suns but set to burnish yet The blushing skies above . Say not , What is , will be , Old Man ; That change is not ordained ; That slaves and kings are useful things , And men are happiest chained . The breeze it freely flows , Old Man , By no vain edict bound ; The starry choir out-hymn thee , liar ! And roll more radiant round .

      Then totter to thy tomb , Old Man , Nor strive in vain to freeze The warming flood of rich red blood Which fills our ministries ; Thy place is under ground , Old Man , Thy tomb shall have a tongue ; The young grass grow o ' er thee below , The skies beam o ' er the young . Old things must go with thee , Old Man , Old dynasties must die ; Old creeds , old laws , ?• the good old cause /' Must sunset in the sky . New thoughts are rising high , Old Man , And still the prophets sing The birth of Truth , the faith of Youth , And the sunshine of tha Spring .

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      VIVIAN ON THE FAIR SEX . It was felicitously said of a woman , by the gay and gallant Steele , that " to love her was a liberal education . " Anch' io son pittore : I am proud to say that I have had such a liberal education j in fact , I have had many liberal educational In virtue of this inestimable good fortune , I claim the privilege of being heard on a question sometimes debated by tho correspondents of this journal ; the more so as I myself , in spite of my notorious love and devotion to the sexe enchant eur , have been accused by correspondents of treating that eex with levity in not sufficiently recognizing " that woman has a soul . " As I set up , moreover , in tho modest recesses of my heart , the claim to be a poet- —unread , indeed , and inedited—but are wo not often assured that ** Tho world knows nothing of its greatest men" ?—

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      to his agent , escaped with comparatively easy himself . The agent , being but an honourable sinner of the worldly class , was struck down by the blow into great depression . His employer was enabled to take a more cheerful view , and , on meeting his poor victim , rallied him on his dejected looks and hopeless thoughts , so different from his own resigned and comfortable state of mind ; " but , ah ! I forgot , he added with a sigh , " you are not blest with my religious consolations ! "— Westminster Rev ., No . 111 .

      loss to The Comfort of Religion . — The coolness with which people who live above the world sometimes avail themselves of its lowest verge of usage is truly amazing . An affluent gentleman of high religious profession , subscriber to gospel schools , believer in prevenient grace , and otherwise the pride of the evangelical heart , found himself not ineensible to the approaches of the Hudson mania , speculated far beyond the resources of his fortune , declined to take up his bad bargains , and thus , at the expense of utter ruin

      A Doa ' s Imagination . —A dog , which refused dry bread , and was in the habit of receiving from his master little morsels dipped in the gravy of the moat remaining in the plate , snapped eagerly after dry bread if he saw it rubbed round the plate , and as , by way of experiment , this was repeatedly done till its hunger w satisfied , it was evident that the imagination of the animal conquered for the time its faculties of smell and taste . — Thompson ' s Passions of Animals Cahker of a Shellfish . —But the life of a shellfish is not one of unvarying rest . Observe the phases of an individual oyster from the moment of its earliest embryo-life , independent of maternal ties , to the consummation of its destiny when tho knife of fate to entomb

      shall sever its muscular cords and doom it - ment in a living sepulchre . How starts it forth into the world of waters ? Not , as unenlightened people believe , in the shape of a minute , Involved , protected , grave , fixed , and steady oysterling . No ; it enters upon its career all life and motion , flitting about in the eea as gaily » and lightly aa a butterfly or a swallow skims through tho air . Its first uppourunee is as a microscopic oyster-cherub , with wing-like lobes flanking a mouth and shoulders , unencumbered with inferior crural prolongations . It passes through a joyous and vivacious juvenility , skipping up and down as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents . It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed , and if in luck , so as to escape tho watohful voracity

      of tho thousand enemies that lie in wait or prowl about to prey upon youth and inexperience , at length , having sown its wild oats , settles down into a Btoady , solid , domestic oyster . It becomeB tho parent ot ireah broods of oystor-oheruba . — Westminster llev ., No , 111 ,

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      We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the Useful encourages itself . —Goethe .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1920/page/19/