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    to his arm , and put a bundle of clothes on hia head , whenever they passed a jungl * . the boy " would throw down his bundle , and make desperate attempts to escape . When beaten . he raised his hands in supplication , took up his bundle , and . went on ; but the sight of the next jangle produced the same excitement * A short time after his return to Lueknow Janoo was sent away by his master for a day or two , and found o > n his return that the boy had disappeared . He could never be found again . ** About two months after the boy had gone , a woman of the weaver caste came to Lucknow , "with a letter from the Rajah of Bondee , stating that her son , when , four years old

    had , five or six years before , been carried off by a wolf ; and from the description given of the boy whom Janoo had taken away with him , she thought he must be the saine . She described marks corresponding with those on Janoo ' s boy ; . bat although she remained some considerable time at Luxknow , no traces could be found of the boy ; and at last she returned to Bondee . All these circumstances were procured by the writer of the pamphlet from Sannaollah , Janoo ' s master , and front Janoo himself , both of whom declared them to be strictly true . The boy must have been with the wolf six or seven years , during which she must have bad several Utters of whelps . "

    It is -worth while to notice an article on Archbishop Whately ' s Cautions for the Times , as a specimen of a kintl of " piece-work " which ought not to find its way into a respectable periodical . We tolerate the penny-a-liner of a daily paper , when he tell s us that the rain was " of the heaviest description "—society has not yet reached that pitch of culture at which a pennya-liner can be expected to have the accomplished intellect that delights in curious felicities of expression . Bat when he oversteps his -vocation , and , with a degree of capacity and acquirement on a par with that of a superior parish clerk , aspires to occupy the pages of an important magazine , we lose patience . Archbishop Whately is a celebrated man ; thus much the reviewer knows , and it is his cue to praise the archbishop ' s book . Read his praise , it is amusing : —

    fans is J&agazine week . Froser , though not particularly brilliant , has ) 6 me points of interest , among which the article on Cronstat and the Russian Fleet is pre-eminent ; but as this is made a subject of notice on another pace , we need only commend that notice to the reader ' s attention . The luk&x&ahig QaHinaceana are continued in a paper on pheasants , brimful of cjlud ^ fipn , iuniour , and useful every-day knowledge . Here is a curious faij ^ ift mtural history , with apiece of information in poultry-yard therapenitics irhich , if not already known , will be welcome to the happy readers iriopossess poultry-yards : — 41 What « w the * gapes ?' ; ^ The ' jYaasbf the Nortlumbrians , my dear- madam ; and if , being learned , as all ladies no-W are , ' yoa object that this is ignotumper ignotius , we will endeavour to describe the disease , not forgetting the remedy . ~* In the gapes the chick .-- —and all birds of the poultry kind seem subject to the disease ,

    in - their yoathyr-is cdnstantly extending the neck , upwards , and opening the bill , as if nufoing . > <* Jp the disease progresses a marked change takes place ! the cluck is no longer £ vKly » ' * nd aefcjwe ^ 'feufc ; - languid ^ and mopine , with drooping mugs , which give it the apf esu | 9 mM ^ t ia « ptly described by a child , who used to call the patients ' sack-backs . ' The disease , & caiified By ttie presence of an intestinal worm—tntpxodn of the initiated , which Idfieres ' i $ * &to intwnal snrface of the windpipe , causing death by suffocation , which sometimes aajseifJromoihn ' amrrttion of the trachea , and sometinhea from actual obstruction . ITh ^ foui ^ aiid deatrnctaveentQ ^ two beings joined together for life . The lufid extrenu ^ jr waa taken , by early observers , for a double head , whence Rndolphi ' s name , i > uneo ^ 7 cne ^ V | 6 ut it is , in reality , due to th « united presence of the two sexes . The shortin ^ ewlanded him to her ; ^ iif ^ thjs io U ^ n ^^ distinct animals a ppear . From this indissoluble

    ] n % trm (> nilu tie- ^ mmssolaDile except by- violence , arises the more modern aad now generall y nr ^^ Toiiift ^ iiftfaaid ^ to'bft an infallible remedy , when administered carefully , especially in the early aUgw of the disuse . ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ; .. ,,. . . - .. . ¦ ^ IBjMho | ris th ^ •^^^ t ^ fowls , into a wooden box , ; jj || Ipfi $ i ^|( i $ ^^ This was Mobtaga ' s plan , and , no doubt , it $ | iyu £ ? iiij ^^ eucceed in all if great attention were' paid , fcn * : c ^ M ^ as bad as the disease . A neater core iseffectea by ipinch' or common salt , put far back into the mouth of the sufferer , so as

    ^^^ e ^^ ia ^ fj ^ i ^ JS ^ es in India calls attention to a pamphlet wluch i §~ ye ^^ tif ^ t ^ and is therefore little f ^ W ^ $ | t yfi $ i < 3 i ' is said to have been , written by a distinguished Indian ipiB | cW ^ ^ h ^ e * naine , if allowed to be mentioned , would be held , a guarantee fox tlie ' iraih bfits statements . It is not a priori incredible that the plentim | " stca ^ c || mythical and romantic , of children nurtured by wild animals , — from '" ¦ ¦ dUi . e ^ t ^ Eomukis and Remus down to the pathetic tale in the Fair Jafc ^ ^ ^ c ^ , of the Highland chieftain who , having been , suckled hy a hi ^ d ^ h ^; tlLe hind's cowardice , and runs away from the battle which is to

    decide ti | iQ fate of his clan , —may have their prototypes in reality . The difficulty . in accepting anecdotes like these Indian ones , must turn rather on the general unreliability of testimony than on the nature of the alleged facts . In India the wolf is regarded as a sacred animal , and it is believed that a village community" within whose boundaries a drop of wolfs blood has fallen , is doomed to destruction . Consequently , in districts where there are few Europeans , the wolves , multiplying unchecked , are very destructive , and there is no question that children are often carried off hy them . The " Indian officer * has met with what he considers trustworthy- evidence , that

    some of the children thuscarried off have been discovered after a lapse of years , domesticated with a wolf and her cubs . The following is the most remarkable instance ;—" About seven years since a troope ^ t- in attendance upon Sajah Hurdut Singh , of Bondee , on the left bank of the Ghagra river , in the district of Bahraatch , in passing near a small stream , saw there two wolfcubs and a boy , drinking . He managed to seize the boy , who se « med to be about ten years old , but was so wild and fierce that he tore the trooper ' s clothes and bit him severely in several places , The Rajah at first had him tied up ia his artillery gua-shed , and fed . him with raw meat , but he was afterwards allowed to wander freely about the Bondee bazaar . He there one lay ran off with a joint of meat from a batcher's shop , and another of the bazaar keepers let fly an arrow at him , which penetrated hie thigh . A lad named Janoo , servant of a Cashmere merchant ^ then at Bondee , took compassion oa the poor boy , extracted the arrow from his thigh , and prepared a bei for

    him under a mango-tree , where he himself lodged . Here he kept him fustened to a tent-pin . Up to this time he would eat nothing but raw flesh , bat Janoo gradually brought him to « at balls of rice and pulse . " In about six weeks after he had been tied up under tbo tree , after much rubbing of his joints with oil , he was made to stand and walk upright . Hitherto he had gone on all-fours . In about four months he began to understand and obey signs . In this manner ho was taught to prepare the hookah , put lighted charcoal on the tobacco , and bring it to Janoo , or to whomsoever he pointed out . He was never heard , howe-ver , to uttej more than one articulate sound . This was ? Abood « ea , ' tho name of the little daughter of a Cashmere mimic , or p layer , who had once treated him with kindness . The odour from his bodj was veiy offensive ; and Janoo had . him rubbed with mustard-seed soaked in water in tho hope of removing it . This was done for some months , during wbicli he was still fed on rice aad flour : but the odour did not leave him . * ' One night , while the boy was lying under the mango-tree . Janoo saw two wolves creep

    stealthily towards him ; and after smelling him , tliey touched him . and ho got up . Instead , however , of being frightened , the boy put his hands upon their heads , and they began to play with him , capering about him , whilst he threw straw and leaves at tliem . Janoo tried to drive them off . out could not ; and becoming much alarmed , he called to the sentry over th . o cuns , and told him that tho wolves were going to eat the boy . He replied , ' Come away and leave him , or they will eat you alao ; ' but when Janoo aavr thorn begin to play together lib fears subsided , and he continued to watch them quietly . At last he succeeded in driving them off ; bvit the following night three wolves came—and a few nights after four—which returned several timoB . Janoo thought that tho two which first camo must have been tho cuba with wliich tho boy was found , and that tlicy would have seized him had thor not recognised him by the smell . They licked hia face with their tongues as ho put his lianda on then- heads . " When Junoo ' a maater returned to Lucknow . lie was , after some difficulty , persuaded to aJlow Janoo to take tho boy with him . Accordingly , Janoo led him along by a string tied

    " In a book consisting of a series of numbers , every one of which is interesting , and important Sn the highest degree , it is difficult to select any portions for quotation , simply , for this reason , that a ll appe ar equa ll y vxnihy . But amongst the most insidious errors with which we have a- i , present to deal , are we not justified in stating , that the Theol ogy of the German school , otf which the writings of Strauss and Theodore Parker give us a fair specimen , is not the least important ? Against this system , too , a most valuable ' caution is provided , and Number 29 , which closes the volume , and is directed against these errors we twill venture to assert is as potoerful an composition as has appeared in the English language ? * ^ . Her gives us some quotations which enable us to appreciate his courage in venturing tliis assertion ; and one of the quotations is introduced thus : — "If " our space permitted , we would gladly ' quote more at l ength from this admirable tract ; we cannot , however , refrain from giving the following extract , with which our readers , tee are svee , will be gratified just as we were ourselves when first toe read it . "

    This is the Lowest depth of contented unmeaningness , not even searching for anything beyond a hackneyed phrase which will serve to round a sentence . In Blackwocd we have a racy satire on the opposite vice in style—the spasmodic striving after more meaning than the universe contains , or than the language of common sense will convey . A- critique on Firmilian , a Tragedy , supposed to be printed for private circulation , is the vehicle of a rich burlesque : on the style of sundry modern poetsjknd one critic of modern poets . 1 " The hero of the p iece , Firm ilian , is a student in the University of Badajoz , a poet , and entirely devoted to his art . He has been engaged for somelunein the composition of a traged y upon the subject of Gain , which is ' to win the world by storm ; ' but he unfortunately discovers , after he has proceeded a certain length in his task , that he has not yet thoroughly informed himself , by experience , of the real nature of the agonies of remorse . He finds that he < annot do justice to his subject without steeping his own soul in guilt , so as tc experience the pangs of the murderer ; and as , according to the doctrines of the

    spasmodic school of poetry , such investigations are not only permitted , but highly laudable , he sets himself seriously to ponder with what victim he should begin . All our spasmodic poets introduce ns to their heroes in their studies , and Mr . Percy Jones follows the tradition . He does not , however , like some of them , carry his imitative admiration of Goethe ' s Faust so far , as personally to evoke Lucifer or Mephistopheles—an omission for which we are really thankful . Firmilian begins by a soliloquy upon his frame of mind and feelings ; and states himself to be grievously perplexed and hindered in his work by his comparative state of innocence . . He then meditates whether he shouldicomnnence his course of practical remorse by putting to death Mariana , a young lady to whom he is attached , or three friends and fellow-students of his , with whom he is to dine next day . After nrach hesitation , he decides on the latter view , aud , after looking up ' Kaymoffd Lallius' for the composition of a cerUinjpowder , retires to rest after a beautiful bat somewhat lengthy apostrophe to the moon . There is nothing in this scono which peculiarly challenges quotation . "

    " I knew a poet once ; and he was young , And intermingled with such fierce desires As mado pale Eros veil his face with grief , And caused his lustier brother to rejoice . He was as amorous as a crocodile In the spring season , when the Memphian bank , Eeceiving substance from the glaring sun , Resolves itself from mud into a-shore . And—as the scaly creature wallowing there , In its hot fits of passion , belches forth The stream from out its nostrils , half in lave , And half in grim defiance of its kind : Trusting that either , from the reedy fen , Some reptile-virgin coyly may appear , Or that the hoary Sultan of the Nile May make tremendous challenge with his jaws , And , like Mark Antony , assert his right To all the Cleopatras of the ooze—So fared it with the poet that I knew . " " But , would you know what noontide ardour is , Or in what mood the lion , in the waste , All fevcr-rhaddened . and intent on cuba , At tho oasis waits the lioness—That shall you gather from tho fiory song Which that young poet framed , before he dared Invade the vaBtness of his ladifa lips . " Firmilian goes to meditate " on a locality which would never have occurred to any but the most exalted imagination "—the summit of the p illar of St . Simeon Stylifces . There he is joined by a brother poet , and after some conversation he seizes the opportunity of widening his experience by hurling his friend and brother from the column . Meanwhile , Apollodorus , a critio , is thus soliloquising below : —

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    Jritica are not the legislators , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—they interpret < &n . d try to enforce them . —Edinburgh Jteview .

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    424 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 6, 1854, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2037/page/16/