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      We have no such treatment of ' the'subject in Hester and Elinor . Hester is jealously isolated indeed , and becomes superhumanly indignant an discovering the secret ; but she goes off into the very rant of romance , and instead d £ feeling any love remaining for her father , she allow * the wrong he has done her . to under all thathb lore and tenderness had done for years . The &uthox& 8 » wluv as we have ? indicated , is not without wba * may be csUedMaegarettf'ullerism , and whose book , derives its main interest , there * from , should not have allowed so good an . occasion to pass . If women are to play anew and : more prominent part an active life , the first great obstacle to be cleared on * of : tbe way is the monstrous heap of absurdities which encumber , the great , question of the relation of the sexes . ItJs not by beooming * " literary ^ " as ? the heroines of this work seem to imagine , that woman ' s life can . be extended f unless , indeed , by literature they help to get pressing opiesfciojaai settled ^ .

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      BOOKS ON OTJB TABLE . P . Qvidii Natonia JFattorum Idbri Sex . With English Notes . Bj F . A . Paley . Whittafcer and Co . Memourtrqf'ihmWbSff JParty during ^ My Time . Bf Henry Biclard Lord Holland . Tol . OL Longman , aaxLCo EsetvrettmtTivBftt&nfqf the Tiar&sinit * Station to Christianity . By the Authorof ** IfO 88 and ' € taiB . - J ^ I hi ^ y The Common & **» of Cholera- 3 jmJBtmdiai IVaetifioaer . ~~ Jtobn Churchill . Egintomfs literary StriUoay JBtorifawfu So . 1 » B ^ Egington ThsPtmtMOtra ^ ine Almanack for 196 * , W . S Pateman Some , Jtegatartf Be&titRcan . TSfrJ . M . SfcricUand . Arthur Hall , Virtno and Go . Mt ^ cal IHr 4 ct <* y wJIsgim £ * r . a * AAlnui » ack Jarl&& . Rudall , Rose , and Carte . The Mmm aa * MM&JUKbvmr » i&r Maa * mm . Hoa * tawt . aimer . Oftrfce , Beeton , and Co . The Oonfe »* or . ^ tfa « Auflwr of " Michel C * Mrfdy . " Clarke , Beeton , and Co . 2 rfc ^ r « w »<^ aj ^ fltoJtoa ««{/ W , airf «« Oo « i . B * M . V . Cousin . T . an&M . Clark . T& » Scoi tiak Motriew . Scottish Tfemperance League The J } w « tawiVth > Jin . fi . By SmmriHitKdtfci { She . TroveDtr ' s Library . ) Ijongman wet € k > . The South Quarterly Reviews - O . Jtortim ^

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      PHILOSOPHY * CIVILISATIOF , ASD TOQTHAjOX Philosophy conquers the Past and the ^ Future , Inii the Present conquers it : hence it is that the question is asked , " Knew yen ever a philosopher that € ould bear ther toothache patientl y ? " Of course not ; toothache is a present phenomenon , intensely present ;; ijas , moreover , a sensation , and not to be . controlled by Logic . I remember in the robust days of boyhood and' conviction—before caries iand doubts had affected my teetfi and philosophy—I used to think I ^ nra blessing , not an cv 9 . " Pain , the Great Teachec , " sounds verjvrell ( especially with the emphasis of capitals ) , and admits of the moat expansive rhetoric ; of which , be assure ! I availed myself , with insolent immunity ^ om ail such teaching . Great was nay faith in Philosophy :

      great mj- admiration for Civilisation . But , now , with discrepant teeth , and vacillating aaamctibnv X can see through that juveoile enthusiasm * Why , sir , I hare fceen Buffering the tortures of heretics during thfe last week * that faithless syren Philosophy , instead of comforting , has mocked me ! No sooner did tfee attack commence ^ than of course I flew to my Christian Fathers- for spiritual relief : The first folio which fell upon my head was ChrysosUm . It seemed symbolical . Tie Father named " He of the golden mouth , " wouta seem to come appropriately to the rescue of a mouth which stood so much in need of gold ( in . the way of stopping ) . Would he not ? Not a bit , sir . The reading maybe lively under placid circumstances , but take my advice , and never venture on it with a . racing tooth .

      wtth quo ^ : d € YOted ^ eQtire P ° em t 0 ^ Sttbject ' ^ I wiU forth-ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE . My enrse upon your venom'd stang , ¦ That shoots mr tortur'd gums alang , And thro' my lugs gies mony a twang , WT gnawm » - vengeance ; Tewaag »^ nervefr w * - ' bitter pang , Like . racking engines I When fevers burn , or ague freezes , Rheumatics gnawj or cbolic squeezes , Our neighbour ' s sympathy may ease us , Wr pitying mean ; ' But thee—thou heU o'a ' diseases ; Ay moeksour groan ! AdoiTO my beard the slavers trickle I r throw the wee stools our tie meikle , As round the fire the giglets keckle , To see-me loup : While raving mad , I wish a hecHe Were ia their doup . O ' a ' the num'rotis human dools , Bl har ' sts , daft bargains , cutty stools , Or worthy friends rak'd i * the mools ,. Sad sight to see ! The triek * o ' knavesr or fesh o * fi ) ol % Thou besr ' st the gree .

      [ Where ' er that place be priests ^ sa ! hell * Whence a' tib » tones o * mis ' iy yell ; And Tanked plagues their numbers tell , In dreadfu' raw , Thou , TooTHAeaB ^ surely bear * at the bell Amangi them m ! O tftau grim nuscniePmaknigchiel ^ \ That , gars the notes o' discord squeel ,. r 'Till dAftrnankipd aft dance a reel In gore a shoe-thick :- — ¦ Gie a *^ the fee * o ? ScotxAN ^' s keel - A towmond * s Toothache ! Bat now for the moral of my strain ; I hwve said thit Givaiaatioii » which corrupts cats into nocturnal musicians , and which adds , to the injury , by creating ; a set of men . whose malignant officiouaness wron't ^ aILqw , tte safetg ; of y <» ar soul to look after itself—Civiuaation , mother of * dl «* il , i » the , mother of toothache . Observe the insidious action in my case ^ Notlmic ago I cbmoed to sit at dinner beside ; my lbttg-lbst Maria- ^ of ^ Uie M . J ^ ^^ ie looked deliriously Taewitching , and all my old feeBngaf caina tro 9 { ii £ ig BaelB -upon my heart . I did my best to captivate her , but couldn ! t . * Aiast shjo found me changed . I was no longer -what I had beeo . She observed : that rhad lost my euthusiasm and cultivated nay whiskers ^ instead ! of tite Viviati she had known whiskerless and impassioned , t had become hirsofce and sceptical . ~ , A delicate moustache , black and silky , had been , removed } a magnificent whisker , black and bushy , had been set up . A . qfuti Jienfk Vamour ! , Ihe next morning I shaved . What will man not . da for wonuut ? Th » next week I had . the toothache . Yesterday I saw Maria looking lovingly u £ into the face of Captain Grogram , who was whispering inanities in an insinuating voice , and conceive my feelings when I observed that this epauletatod ass who had ; cut me out wore-whiskers of the sandiest dye ! - . 'Xhis is Civilisation . Viwiajt .

      I tried Scbleiermacher s Propadeutik : It didn't relieve me . I tried Drelincofirt on Death s wad was not enlivened . I made a desperate plunge Into Martin Fupner's Pr&verteul Platititdes , and didn't sleep . ( Think what the activity of patn must have been !) " Hang up philosophy r I gjroaned ; and at that moment thought with savage irony of those Natural Theologians who try to convince us that pain is a wise dispensation—placed as a warning not to break the laws of nature . If one of the said Theologians could have had my tooth in his head for one hour ! What use was the warning to me ? what broken laws . were avenging themselves on me ? I was suflering because Civilisation had advanced witn its specious " march * so jubilantly accompanied by fools . If Civilisation had not corrupted the world , toothache would have been unknown . But the Age of Gold has passed—its small remanets lincerincr onlv in our stormed

      teeth I The Age of Innocence has passed away . Think you that Adam suffered from the toothache in Mesopotamia ? Do you imagine the young Achilles to have had imperfect molars ? Did Socrates know of the snecedaneum ? Was Odontopathy a science dreamed of by Aristotle ? No ; it is to Civilisation and its corruption we owe corrupted teeth . Yet there are men grandiloquent about Civilisation and its blessings . Blessings are they ? Why it is to Civilisation we owe the barking of dogs and the molrowing of cats in moments of exhilarated gallantry ! To Civilisation we owe Taxes , Toothache , and Dr . Cumming ! I am assured of the sympathy of almost every reader in addressing myself to the subject of Toothache . Only the young and frivolous are insensible to its solemn significance , its crushing majesty . Doomed as wo are by the corruptions of Civilisation , we all knov what the agony is : a fellow toothache makes the whole world kin . Philosophers have suffered from it ; poets have poured their sufferings into verse . What , indeed , says Shelley ? " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry \> y wrong ; They learn in Toothucho what they touch in song . "

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      THE " FIRST HIGHT" AT THE OLYMPIC . War hereby do pleasant penance for an omission of last week ; an . omission we feel to be less pardonable when wo consider the energetic promptitude of the act ^ calling for notice . The withdrawal of the Olympic pantomime after a brief struggle of twelve nights—while the varnish was fresh on the masks , and the tricks yet worked stiffly—was a step that will not gain the manager all the credit he deserves : because it is impossible for the , general public to estimate the sacrifice , the trouble , anxiety , and cool but quick judgment required in finding an . immediate substitute for a spectacle , at the very commencement of what should be a run . But , if we may judge from the delighted faces that lined the theatre on the night of our visit , the public at all events is grateful for the boon , and seems inclined to mark with approval this departure from the old system of forcing on an expensive failure , as long as puffery will prevail against the good sense of the town .

      JLePlre dela D&bxiLtanl < i ? Englished by Wigan into the " First N * ghti" is a piece that would be positively unendurable with bad , or even second-rate acting . It is , in fact , a show piece ; and , for its purpose , the display / of finished " eccentric" acting , it is one of the best pieces of its kind . Wigan ' a representation of the false , cringing Frenchman , whom the audience , lave for bis love and devotion to his daughter , is masterly . ^ A fine touch was that , his peeping through the hole at the mock audience , and praymg them , in a voice trembling with emotion , to be kind to his child ; a finer touch still his producing the sherry and water ( sixpennyworth in a little flat phial ) , and crying " Courage , courage , " to the trembling girl . His stopping to rouge his cheeks before " leading her on , " at the triumphant conclusion of be / first act , was perfectly in keeping with the whole character of the man . In short , the acting of Wigan and Miss P . Horton , in this piece , was a . 9 if studied to please a theatre ot critics . We will just add that the incidental truvestio of tho scene from the " Huguenots , " between Raoul and

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 21, 1854, page 67, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2022/page/19/