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CHAPTER 111.

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Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. 6d; and sent
free, on receipt of a Post-office order, for 3s. 6d.,
11‘1[ANHOOD ; the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those
suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on
the Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhea,
ea Gleet, &c., illus-
trated with cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
SE YEN T H EDITION.
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The following are a few of the numerous testimonials this
popular work has received, and which the limits of an adver-
tisement will only allow of being published :
The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature,
and the arts, was, we believe, never so prevalent as at the pre-
sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this is, that we
meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent, useless, and
even bad books. With the force of this prejudice on our
minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled ManbDod ;" nor did it re-
quire much perusal fully to satisfy us that the book was not
one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the
authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing
effects of certain depraved habits, fully establish their claim to
the character of experienced and judicious surgeons. To
quote passages from the work in proof of our assertion would
be departing from the established rules of the daily press. The
result, however, of our careful perusal of the work, has been
to impress us with a thorough confidence in the talent and
skill of the authors, and to satisfy us that those entrusted with
the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur-
nishing them with a means of preventing some of the most
frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England.
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood," is one of the
few books now coming befor the public on such a subject which
can lay claim to the character of being strictly professional, at
the same time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it.
The moral and medical precepts given in it, render it invalu-
able.—Magnet.
The perusal of Messrs. Curtis's book entitled " Manhood,"
has really astonished us by developing a series of maladies, the
never-failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it
treats. The clear connexion pointed out between the assigned
cause and the effects is perceptible to every capacity. We
strongly recommend the work.—Age.
The multitude of books daily coming from the press, some,
nay most of them, of a very questionable tendency, made us ex-
tremely reluctant to take up another. Having, however, bent
induced by the character given of this work by an intelligent
friend, we ventured to open its pages, and now feel no hesita-
tion in saying that we arise from its perusal instructed and
edified. The clear exposition of the source of many of those
diseases which proves so fatal to youth, and which are set
down by the every-slay observer as the result of common
s, exposure to cold., sudden vicissitudes f
tempe-
issfatcrutclyry7,nivnian,cmi convincing aansdmeexstsrres-.
satisfactory," causes,
rature such
ietlaitary
Itvaients,ayB',c4.
may satisfactory.
Curtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulmonary
hitherto the opprobria of medi-
cCi onne ummai owhen
ptaken
y
in&epr.Oper time, and submitted to judi-
cious treatment, be brought to as favourable a termination
as any other class of affections. We do not think we go too
far in- saying that society is deeply indebted to the authors for
producing so useful, so much wanted, so valuable, and so truly
moral a book —Conservative Journal.
We recommend the work entitled " Manhood," &c., to the
careful perusal of persons of all classes. The moral as well as
physical advantages sure to result from such perusal, will be
most readily recognised and felt by those who stand most in
need of them.—Statesman.
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F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

TO NON-ELECTORS.
HOW TO GAIN A VOTE, AND USE IT WITH-

OUT INTIMIDATION.

Every Reformer who is excluded from the list of
voters, and does not possess the necessary qualifications
to get his name on the register, may as effectually contri-
bute to the return of a Reform Candidate as if ho had a
vote for himself, and that vote was protected from inti-
midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of
voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer
at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of
August, and make a note of the name and address of
any Tory that appears on the register and is not in
every way qualified. He should immediately forward
the information, with ground of objection, to some active
Reformer or Registration Committee, who will object to
him ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will
be excluded from the register, the onus of proof lying
entirely with the person objected to..
Thus the Tory vote struck off will bo one gained to
the cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not more
so, than a vote given by the informant under the protec-
tion of the ballot. .
Surely the thousands in the metropolis excluded from
the franchise, and those who have been compelled to
sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame-
ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them-
selves upon their intimidators, and thus regain the vote
their private interest compelled them to give against
their own honest conviction.

CARLYLE, HALLAM, AND SIDNEY SMITH.
—I may say that we have scaled the ladder of evening en-
tertainments here, going from a six o'clock family tea up
to a magnificent concert at L— House; and the tea at
this home-like hour was at Carlyle's. He is living in
the suburbs of London, near the Thames ; my impres-
sion is in rather an humble way; but when your eye is
filled with a grand and beautiful temple, you do not take
the dimensions of surrounding objects; and if any man
can be independent of them, you might expect Carlyle to
be. His head would throw a phrenologist into ecstacies.
It looks like the " forge of thought" it is; and his eyes
have a preternatural brilliancy. He reminded me of what
Lockhart said to me, speaking of the size of Webster's
head, that he " had brains to fill half a dozen hats."
Carlyle has as strong a Scotch accent as Mr. Combe.
His manner is simple, natural, and kindly. His conversa-
tion has the picturesqueness of his writings, and flows as
naturally, and as free from Germanism, as his own
mountain streams are free from any infusion of German
soil. He gave. us an interesting account of his first ac-
quaintance with E—n. He was living with his
wife in a most secluded part of Scotland. They had no
neighbours, no communication with the world, when he
went some miles to a post-office in the hope of a letter of
some other intimation that the world was going on. One
day a stranger came to them, a young American, and " he
seemed to them an angel." They
.spoke of him as if they
had never lost their first impression of his celestial na-
ture. Carlyle had met Mr. Webster, and expressed a
humourous surprise that a man from over the sea should
talk English, and be as familiar as the natives with the
English constitution and laws,
" With all that priest or jurist saith
Of modes of law, or modes of faith."
He said Webster's eyes were like dull furnaces, that only
wanted blowing on to lighten them up. And, by the way,
it is quite interesting to perceive that our great country-
man has made a sensation here, where it is all but as dif-
ficult to make one as to make a mark on the ocean. They
have given him the sobriquet of the " Great Western,"
and they seem particularly struck with his appearance.
A gentleman said to me, " his eyes open, and open, and
open, and you think they will never stop opening ;" and
a painter was heard to exclaim, on seeing him, " What a
head ! what eyes ! what a mouth ! and, my God I what
colouring 1" We had a very amusing evening at Mr.
Hallam's, whom (thanks to F., as thanks to her for all my
best privileges in London) I have had the great pleasure
of seeing two or three times. But this kind of seeing is
so brief and imperfect that it amounts to little more than
seeing the pictures of these great people. Mr. Hallam
has a very pleasing countenance, and a most good-hu-
moured and playful manner. I quite forgot he was the
sage of the " Middle Ages." Ile reminded me of —;
but his simplicity is more genuine ; not at all that of the
great man trying to play child. You quite forget, in the
freedom and ease of the social man, that he is ever the
hero in armour. We met Sidney Smith at his house, the
best known of all the wits of the civilized world. The
company was small ; he was i' the vein, which is like a
singer being in voice, and we saw him, I believe, to ad-
vantage. Ilis wit was not, as I expected, a succession of
brilliant explosions, but a sparkling stream of humour,
like when he is at home, and i' the vein too ; and
like him, also, he seemed to enjoy his own fun, and to
have fattened on it. He expressed unqualified admira-
tion of Dickens' and said that 10,000 of each number of
Nicholas Nickleby was sold. There was a young man
present, who, being flushed with some recent literary
success-, ventured to throw himself into the arena against
the old lion-king, and to a lover of such sport, it would
have keen pleasant to see how he crackled him up, flesh,
bones-, and all.—Miss Sedgiviele's Letters.
DARING AND DEXTEROUS FEAT.—The pro-
prietor of a cotton-mill, situated in the neighbourhood
of Glasgow had occasion to have some alteration made
theit,op of a towering stalk adjoining the mill, an iron
plate in that direction, which interfered with the free
egress of the volume of smoke, having got out of posi-
tion ; and to have thrown up a scaffolding, to repair the
damage, would have cost a considerable sum. A slater,
however, undertook, for a few pounds, to ascend to the
top of the stalk, by means of a considerable number of
sharp-pointed pieces of iron, which he drove into the
stalk, commenceisnegadr
at the foot,foeri um
nstarnd
instruments),
till
proceeding onwardsr(occasionally den
eached
the top. He finished his Herculean task in two days, to
the satisfaction of the proprietor, but to the no small
terror of the spectators, to whom, it is said, he appeared
as a speck in the distance, and who were naturally afraid
that he might instantly fall headlong from the pinnacle,
and b o dashed to pieces.—Glasgow Argus.