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    A . Worship , obedience , fidelity , the payment of taxes , service , love , and prayer , the ¦ whole being comprised in the words worship and service . Q . Wherein does this worship consist , and hovr should it be manifested ? A . By the most unqualified reverence in words , gestures , demeanour , thoughts , and actions . Q . What kind of obedience do we owe him ? A . An entire , passive , and unbounded obedience in every point of view . Q . How are irreverence and iafidelity to the Emperor to be considered in reference to God ? ¦ A . As the most heinous sin , and the most frightful criminality .

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    A BATCH OF EDUCATIONAL BOOKS . Discoveries in Chinese ; or , the Symbolism of the Primitive Characters of the Chinese System of Writing , as a Contribution to Philology and Ethnology , and < i Practical A . id in the Acquisition of the Chinese Language . By Stephen Pearl Andrews ( Norton , JSTew York ) . As it has been emphatically asserted with more or less reason that the Age of Miracles is not passed , we have no objection to supposing that , prot > ably , a work on the symbolism of Chinese characters may find readers—possibly purchasers . The long title is really more suggestive than any observations that might fall from a Jiasty reviewer , who , for want of time to learn Chinese , knows nothing a . bout the subject . If more than this confession , be required , it will be sufficient

    to inform the reader that the volume is accompanied by a panegyric ( apparently written by the publisher ) which shows clearly that the work leaves nothing to be desired . Let us then hope , for other reasons besides , that nothing more will be written on the symbolism 6 f Chinese characters . Mr . Norton , of ISTew York , also supplies us with a little book which tears Tfclie attractively antithetical title of Glossology ; a Treatise on the Nature of Language and on the Language of Nature . By Charles Kraitser , MJ ) . The words Second Edition on the title-page testify to its merits . The philologically curious ^—those who would read anything or everything on the subject—will welcome it ; but the curiously philological—who know rather too much already—will probably laugh at it . In the beginning the reader is told that " This is not a mere collection of trivial remarks or of the usual views

    on Human Speech , considered either as a vehicle of intercourse between men , or as a key to unlock the literary treasures of a specific language with . It is analogous to a treatise on Navigation , or on Architecture , or on Materia Medica ; each one being taken with reference to the Svhole cycle of * he respective sciences of -which it is composed . As each of these treatises is , as it were , a sort of nosegay or bouquet of flowers culled from the several "beds of their scientific gardens , so is the present book intended to be a kind of brain , ears , and eyes-gay , gathered from the psychologic , anatomic , acoustic , graphic , grammatic , lexiconie , ethnographic , &c , beds of the garden of Anthropology . " ! N " ow the reader knows all about it , and a , great < leal more !

    A third American worfc has reached us—this time from Cincinnati .. A " great country" naturally has great words , and so a mere British public must not be astonished at a series of lectures on what we call Phrenology being entitled Outlines of Lectures on the Neurological System of Anthropology 'tis Discovered ^ Demonstrated , and Taught in 1841 and 1842 . By Joseph R . Buchanan , M . D . Rashly did -we say '' Phrenology" would express the subject , for it also includes Cerebral Physiology , Pathognomy , and Sar-• cognomy . However , the part , as usual , contains the whole . The volume gives us the outlines of one hundred lectures , prefaced by an elaborate review of Gall ' s system , which it corrects on many points . There are also numerous engravings , displaying sectional views of the craniunas of philanthropists or cannibals , as the case maybe . Everything is explained in the ¦ customary manner by figures and an Index . The work , in spite of its technical jargon , is really interesting—indeed valuable—and will doubtless

    be eagerly sought by the increasing public which the subject now commands . Popular British Cqnchology , by G-. B . Sowerby , P . L . S . ( Reeve ) , is a , little book which will materially mitigate the miseries of a month at Margate , or elsewhere . People who " pick up sheila by the great ocean" -will find much interest in comparing them with the beautifully drawn and coloured illustrations which are contained in this volume-The same publisher has issued First Steps in Economic Botany—an abridgment of the larger work by T . C . Archer . The abridgment has been undertaken at the suggestion of the " Department of Science and Art , "

    which is an official notification of its worth . It appears to be less erudite , And consequently more suitable for students , than Dr . Lindley ' s School Botany . The illustrations are especially praiseworthy for their gracefulness . History for Boys ; or , Annals of the Nations of Modem Europe , by John G . Edgar ( Bogue ) , occupies medium ground between the great little historians Pinnock and Markham . It ia certainly a fuller work than the former , but has scarcely the grasp of misinformation and extensive want of philosophy which renders the latter so great a favourite . There are occasionally strong < daahea in the Froissart style , and these have keen seized as subjects by an Anonymous artist , who , if not Gilbert , must make that illustrator tremble .

    Flax and Hemp ; tiieir Culture , $ * c , "by E . Sebastian Delamer ( Routledge ) , is a little shilling Manual , cheap and interesting . Logic for the , Young ( Longman and Co . ) is a great improvement on the treatise of Dr . Watts , in-• a # much as it ia only a selection from that work . Mer-cur ~ ius ; or , the- Word-Moker , by the Rev . Henry Lo Mesurier , M . A . ( Longman and Co . ) , is a work to criticise which , unless at great length , would be idle . Great length we cannot aiFord , so we will merely aay that it has similar interest with Trench ' s little work , but that it is infinitely too clever for general reading , Mr , Hudson ' s Practical and Easy Metltod of Learning Frencti , ( Sinnpkin ) is neither so practical nor so easy us the author would make us believe . An an auxiliary work it may be found useful . Hf Mr . Lo Page will write books for teaching French which roach twenty-second editions , he must allow that fact to apeak for itself . It ia impossible to notice a fresh edition ovary quarter . Instead of our criticism he must take bur congratulations . If such works as the French Prompter , the Echo de Paris , and the Gift of Conversation , together with the elementary boqks , need any further recognition , wo can conscientiously recommend them to all who wish for an individual alliance with the French .

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    THE FISH FANCIER'S OWN BOOK . Prose HaEeutics ; or , Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle . By the Rev . C . David Badham , M . D . _ John W . Parker and Son " One portion of this delightful volume has already instructed and amused a larjre circle of readers in the pages of Eraser ' s Magazine ; another portion is now published for the first time , and the result is one of the most entertaining books on a thoroughly unhackneyed subject , wliich it has been our good fortune to read for some time past . In these days of vehemently smart writing it is a rare merit in an author when be can amuse liis readers without su" - < resting the idea of effort on his own part . Mr . Badham may fairly cluinTthe distinction of being one of the " select few" in this respect . He uses his extraordinary antiquarian and technical knowledge of his subject in all its branches , easily , gracefully , and entertainingly , from the first page to the last . He manages to interest us , on any ancient or modern topic which he chooses to take up in connexion with fish , in the pleasantest possible manner . How the ancients caught fish—how the moderns sell it , especially in the Naples markethow to dress mullethow to stud

    — — y sticklebacks ;—where the entrails of bastard-mackerel once enjoyed a great reputation—what the Apician receipts were for stewing fish— -what the Neapolitan fish-weighers make by their work—what Asturius Celer gave for a single mullet , are some among the hundreds of quaint out-of-the-way fish topics about which Mr . Budham discourses as gaily and lightly as if his information had never cost him more than a passing moment or two of research . We lay great stress upon the manner in which this book is written , because we believe that Mr . Badham has made his subject , in the first instance , interesting to everybody by the lively anecdotical manner in which he has treated , it . People in general have but two interests in the matter of fish—the interest of catching them , and the interest of eating them . Mr . Badham . first lures his readers into looking at the subject in a new light , and then proceeds to inform them further , so easily and gaily that they may learn everything from him , and be conscious of no other educational process at the end of the lesson than the very pleasant process of being constantly amused .

    By way of substantiating our favourable opinion we must now offer the reader one or two specimens of our author ' s Fish Tattle . Here is a paragraph of gratifying

    ENCOURAGEMENT TO FISH-EATERS AT HOME . As no bottle of alec or garurn has hitherto turned up in the excavations of Pompeii , we cannot speak authoritatively , nor institute a comparison between these productions of the Burgesses of antiquity with our own . Pish , however , we can compare , and the result goes to prove that any Cockney with two shillings and sixpence in his pocket , may regale over the stairs of Hungerford-market , at Blaekwall or Riclimoud , on delicacies to which the senate and people of Rome were utter strangers . Indeed , it is no inconsiderable set-off against the disadvantages of living so far from the sun , that the supplies of northern fish-markets are ineoutestably and greatly superior to those of any Italian or Sicilian pescheria : superior ,. 1 st , because in those kinds which are common to . our great ocean , and their " great sea , " our own are better flavoured ; because , 2 ndly , even tlie finer sorts , which belong exclusively to the Mediterranean , are for the most part poor ; and Srdly , and above all , because there is an almost total want in its waters of species which we consider , and advisedly , as our best . Were

    superiority to be determined by mere beauty and variety of colouring , the market of Billingsgate could not enter into competition for a moment with the smallest fishingtown in the south , where the fish aTe for the most part coasters , and derive their gorgeous hues from the same buccina aa < i eoquflJage whence the Tyriaus got their superb dyes . But as the gayest plumage is by no means indicative of the bird boat adapted for the table , so brilliancy of scales affords no criterion by which , to judge of the culinary excellence of fish , the beauty of whose skin . in . this instance contrasts singularly with the ( quality of the flesh , wliich is generally poor and insipid , and sometimes unwholesome and . even deleterious . The Mediterranean pelagians ( or open sea-fish ) have neither brilliancy of colour mor delicacy of flesh to atone for the want of it ) so that no Englishman , will repine to leave thunny beef to the Sicilian' ichthj'Qphagist , whilst lie has the genuine pasture-fed article at home in place of it . Nor though , to such coarse feeders as the ancient Greeks , sword-fish might be held equal to veal , will his better-instructed palate assent to aueh . a libel upon wholesome butchers' meat . Mullet mu 3 t indeed be admitted on all hands to be a good fish ; but one good thing only in a hundred does not satisfy omnivorous man , and tovjours

    triylia is not better than toujours perdrix ^ as everyone who has passed a winter at Naples knows to his cost . Sardines are only palatable in oil , au natural they are exceedingly poor and dry ; and for that other small clupean , the anchovy ( the latent virtues of which are only elicited by the process which metamorphoses tlio fish intu sauce ) , BritjLsh white-bait is far more than an equivalent . But if' the Mediterranean has but few alumni to bo proud of , the poverty of its water ,- ! is ccrtuinly more conspicuous in its deficiencies than in its supplies ; indeed , the instinct of nil first-rate fisli seems to bo to turn their tail upon this sea . Thus among the snlinonidiw , salmon and smelt are alilto unknown ; of the gadian family , all the finest species , as cod , haddock , whiting , Hng , and coal-fish are wanting ; and to quote but one other example , " Whilst migrant herrings steer their myriad bo-nds , Jbrom seas of ice to visit wanner strandH , us we road in tlio ^ Apocrypha of l > r . Darwin , not © no ovur entered the Bay of Naplefl , unless salted in a barrel from England . Our author can write well on other subjects besides Fish . How graphically , and how truly , he describes

    A STOHM IN THIS MEJ (> ITKltHANBA . N . . While tho observer j » , perhaps , enjoying the placid moonbeams , and reluctantly thinking of returning homo , a whole park of artillery ia preparing for ml » uhiuf behind tho rocks of Ounri . A aquall , as Huddou as a NuapoUtun ' H " rabbin , " quickly ruillo .-i the quiusuont sea , and lashes it into fomn ; tho earliest intimation of which in no Hoouisr given , thuu all hauton to pat thuniHulvua under cover from itn violence . Clouds niu . itor with inconceivable rapidity , and come trooping up from tho mnit . h-caNt , till lh <> y form a serried , black phalanx over Briiiu , and proceeding vUX Pozxuoli nnd Inch in , « xtinguhih tho Htar « and moon , and eclipse ev « m tho glare of Vesuvius , making tun waters dark and tlio night hicleouft . Hark ! it i .-i owning now in oarnti . it , and we happily nro at homo . That wn « not tlio rumble of a

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    1242 . THE LEADEE . [ Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 30, 1854, page 1242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2071/page/18/