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SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDAED. From the 'specinaens adduced, our readers will not much more happy, as fcr example, in No. 178, for readily, perceive that there is " much matter" in the " give me a clean glass," we are instructed to leave out book. They must not, hoviever, imagine that the j the word clean, as unnecessary, as no one wo u ld thi n k royal luxury displayed in its fertile p ag e s ' are ex- of asking for a:dirty . glass. " A little knowledge of the elusively devoted to the frivolities and unseemly excess world might have instructed our preceptor that the alluded to in the last extract. By perusing the work j precautionary word clean is not in every instance it will be seen that, like other savage despots, the late superfluous, as applied to glass or other vessels, and - King of Oude, in his debaucheries, exhibited the that, too, without implying the habitual, or even. darker and more revolting characters of rapacious ty- ordinary occurrence of dirt. With deference we ranny in a formidable manner. The book abounds in venture to doubt that "He began to succumb," is a interesting matter, and as such we recommend it. Scotticism, and are far from concurring in the belief that the phrase is translated into better English than it is by saying, as our instructor wishes us to do, "He began to sink under the pressure of his misfortunes." Johnson, not a Scotch auttority, defines succumb <as "to yield, to sink under diEculty ;" but less refined than our learned friend, who places such reliance on the authority of the Rev. A. G. D. D'Orsay, no doubt a decent teacher of English in the Glasgow High-: school, Dr. Johnson does not .make misfortune a .siate gua.non of the sinking. A perusal, not over rigid,. of Johnson's valuable lexicon would show the corrector of Scotticisms, that many of the words he sets down as Scotch were English ; experience would teach, him that many of the phrases he condemns are neither. Scotticisms nor vulgarisms, but expressions which, though technical, are perfectly correct, and are such as would be greatly impaired in expressiveness of signification if treated in the style of namby-pamby puerility which he recommends. If he had followed so sensible a cause of proceeding as that hinted at above, he might have avoided many of the blunders he has fallen into ; but then he would have missed 'the opportunity of applyinc , the curious philological dogma of his friend and model, 6 Mr. D'Orsay, that a Scotticism is not so much Scottish words as English words in a Scottish use or construction:' He has chosen his alternative, and many will be of opinion ,that he has - done for himself what Dogberry insisted on the clerk, or some one else doing for him- The Career of a .Rising Man : a Novel. By M. Viener. London : Newby. " The Career of a Rising Man" is a regular novel of the three half-guinea volume class, which erst used to delight the circulating library keepers before their in teresting calling was broken in upon and ruined by the flood of penny literature, which was, for a time, so remorselessly poured upon .the public by that society which Cobbett, in his irate contempt, used to_designate by a trifling play upon its title, " The Society for the Confusion of Useful Knowledge," and its compeers. it is a story 'of wrong, and injury, and vengeance, the incidents of which are sketched with ready vigour, and wrought out with painstaking fidelity. The reader, familiar with the better class of literature of this order, which has flourished since the days when the " Great Unknown"— as it was the fashion- to denominate the author of Waverley— was wont to delight the reading world with his effusions, will not fail to perceive in the story of Mr. Viener, a certain family likeness to the novels of Disraeli and Bulwer, together with a slight dash of those concocted by the author of " Tremaine. There is a good deal of the metaphysic mist of Mr. Ward, coupled with the ready and glowing dash of Disraeli, and the minute life studies ofßulwer in these volumes. The dialogue is clear and nervous, the characters generally well drawn, and the plot is worked out, through a sufficient num ber of well-arranged convolutions. The chief draw backs on the excellence of the story are the affected The " Warnings of the War :" aL .Primeetter the t Right elevation of sentiment 'which pervades it, and the Hon. Lord Palmerston somewhat questionable ambition of style which marks, " A British Commoner." 'London Th.ot s ß ter os . wor Thi th. and to a considerable extent mars, what would. other- This brochure, which was addressed eltotlaLcocred acceptance be entitled to the appellation of nervous writing. merston at no long period subsequen Taken with all its shortcomings, "The Career of a of the. Premiership, should have been.noticed grlie ee r earlier ;; .Rising Man" is a good production, and one which but as its object, and its real public value, was to fully entitles his friends to indulge in the belief that inculcate on his lordship the propriety of adopting a its name foreshadows the literary reputation of its line of policy for the conduct of the war, against which author, and that the -success , of its execution places the most influential of his colleagnes.had emphatically laim in the enviable position of a "rising man." set his face, directing attention to the pamphlet could have had no practical utility : the extrusion of Never Too _Late to - Learn : Scotticisms Corrected. that colleague from the public service givesrise to the London : John F. Shaw. hope of an altered policy on- many points, and the - - This is a little publication with large pretensions. recommendations of the "British Commoner. " may, It has at least one redeeming feature, and that of no with propriety, be urged on : the national consideration. small value—it aims a t b e ing useful, and frequently is The chief point of his argument is directed to show so.l tlt consists of a series of colloquial vulgarisms, the the necessity of employing against Russia the arms stiff rule-gathered corrections of which are given along , and energies of those nations whom the oppression of with them. That such a b ook will be emi- Russia has driven intonatural and vindictive anti nently useful to those who have ne ver had the pathy to her sway and. :machinations. He advocates, benefit of a regular education , but who are, with the earnestness. of conviction, the propriety of nevertheless, possessed of sufficient tact to pick up, availing ourselves of the aid which might, and willingly would be rendered by the brave and intrepid parrot-like, - it few stereotyped phrases and use them , with a moderate share of propriety , is f ull y true ; but Circassians ; and with equal eloquence urges the advantage of raising up the nationality of Poland as to the conversationalist of breeding and refinement an effectual means of cripplin the its teachings will only bear the comparison that an g power of Russia, epistle compiled from the pages of a " Polite Letter- Now that Lord John Russell, who was understood to Writer" does to the 'correspondence of an educated f have insuperable objections to the adoption of this individual—they will contain the words and phrases, course, which many, from the commencement of the but lack the spirit which marks the emanations of a struggle, deemed indispensable, has ceased to have any sway in our national councils, the time seems cultivated mind. The compiler of the " Scotticisms Corrected" honours his Caledonian friends with the . opportune for urging it, and in the pages of this paternity of many phrases to which they can produce "letter" it is earnestly and skilfully set before the no legitimate claim—exempli . .gratia, his illustration public. No. 46 is " I will wait of you in the morning," which he properly corrects by saying " wait on." In what part of Scotland he met with such a phrase, unless he stumbled upon a Cockney tourist, or a Derbyshire boor, it would be difficult to point out ; at all events, after a pretty extensive experience of all the dialects to be met with, indigenous to Scotland, from the Solway to the Orkneys, and from the German to the Atlantic Ocean, we have never met with a locale in which the phrase referred to flourished. We have heard it frequently, however, in several of the midland counties of England, and have been assured by a Cockney that " he would wait of us in the morning." Many ether of our excellent teacher's illustrations are The Case of Luigi Buranelli, Medico-Legally Con. sidered. By Forbes Winslow, M.D., D.C.L. Lon don : John Churchill. The crime of Luigi Buranelli, which to all outward appearance was that of a very atrocious murder, was committed in London early in the month of January of the present year. After the instantaneous slaughter of his victim, which Buranelli effected while that victim was locked in the arms of sleep, by shooting him, it may be remembered that the assassin discharged another pistol at the woman with whom Lambert (the victim) lived as his wife, and severely wounded her that he then rushed up-stairs, reloaded one of the pistols—for he had two—and endeavoured to commit suicide by shooting himself,'H tody, recovered from the. dip& wound, was tried for the murd( withstanding great exertions obtain a commutation of, the sem Buranelli was an Italian,. had be , with several English gentlemen - , manners hail generally: engaged who employedhim. Ile was als( of them -to have exhibitnel some . weakness.. InUnedFitely on his for the murder ;-of Lambert name of the. -victim of Buran feeling of those gentlemen was unhappy man in a very marked were engaged for his defence ; the highest . standing: were addf murderer was insaneond icons e& to the law for his acts; .in short; ingenuity could devise and skill rescue him from tho fangs -of ). effect ; the jury pronounced him tented:; to die, and ordered for not to,/eave an effOrt - untried friends of Buranelli besieged ti vouroil to extort mercy for I unavailing, and the condemned • The object of the pamphlet h opposition to his conviction and the efforts to save •Buranellt. It arraign the judge, the jury, and' legal murderers of the blood execution of Buranelli," Dr:RL we fear, be a foul stain upon the humanity and iutelh century. ,,. Now- this, with all we hold to he putting the: and indecorous strength. . insanity, although it may. b judgment of one so deeptY,': illusory irresponsibility as.' looked on as at all convio c en i a, who presided, and v(ss dieted. 11 ‘... jury, was flatly contra-. , maae medical testimony, -4 the responsible advisers of the upoxv,the judge, the . jury, and the face of all this, i s there no' to indecency contßip.ed in thi which the writer-of the pam, "-May the intelligence, the Ir civilization, the justice, and. ; great and justly-renowned sullied or outraged by a rope exhibition !"- The friends, of exertion to, save him from a not insane, he justly merited laws of this country, and in of God himself. They end from that doom on an allegal allegation they endeavoured ' was not deemed conclusive jury, and the effect of which the fountain of British legal must be impugned, denoun( they could not unseat their and place on its chair the questionable opinions of Dr. gentlemen who participate views. PERIODICALS.—The Chris. The present number is in n cessors in talent. The first Women," giving an account Lions" in America, shews boasted liberty and—slavery, into an inferior position, ver: liberty which they possess in or have been, queens, prince, wardens, overseers of the twenty-one, a woman may hoi to any amount, until she giv, husband. In America, the meat takes the line of prel law-makers. 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