The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

TOLERATION.

" I believe not only every one has faults, but every
one has some great leading and especial fault; and as
long as that fault is neither a very mean, nor a very
atrocious one—as long as I believe they do their best to
balance their imperfect nature by such good as lies in
their power, I am as ready to respect and love them as
if my reason were a mole, and had no eyes to spy out
their imperfections."
" Well, I am not."

" $o it seems ; but does it never strike yon,—that
while you have no patience with one man because he is
stingy, another because he is extravagant, a third be-
cause he is presumptuous, that there may bo something
in your own nature that makes them equally impatient?
To exchange indulgence with, fault for fault, would be
best, don't you think ?"
" I think, that in condemning where I see reason to
condemn, I merely follow the principles of religion, and
the dictates of common sense."

reader of the Scriptures, but they cannot beer that in-
te;:eotattn. In
o religion, Mr. Marsden: you aro a great
all the history of our Saviour, there is
not one wrathful sentence—not one speech of condem-
nation. He had sympathy and compassion for all humaa
infirmities; for sorrow, for sickness, even for repentant
sin. lie went about healing and pardoning. Whether
it was Jairus wailing over his little daughter, or Lazarus'
sisters weeping by a brother's tomb, or the lame beggar
who vainly struggled to the blessed pool for cure; the
gentle Jesus felt for all. The last bitter moments he
spent on earth, hanging in torture on the cross, were
spent in speaking comfort to the penitent thief. There
is nothing recorded aftsr that, but bis ex"lamation in the
death-pang. Oh! if ever a lesson of indulgence could be
taught to man, surely we might learn it there! Even
to those who deny tmd doubt the divinity of Christ, his
life must seem one great and complete emblem of
universal toleration!"
Excellent as it is,Ais extract conveys but a poor
idea of the chArtning style and fascinating in-
terest of " Stuart of Danleath." The most beau-
tiful portions are perhaps those passages of mingled
tenderness and pathos in which the heart-trials of
Elrannr, her love for her children, and their sad fates
are recorded. The descriptions of these infants could
only have been wr4ten by one fully cognisant of the
oiof
depth and tenderness of a mother's love. The cha-
racter of Eleanor would have been more perfect if, at
the close of the story, she had returned to Penrhyn,
and sae would then have more literally obeyed the
favcurite maxim 'of the noble-hearted Margaret—
" Fais cc quo clots; advienne qua pourra." With
this reservation.,:we cordially commend " Stuart of
Dunleath" to thelovers of the beautiful portraiture of
natural ernotions,,warning them, however, that in its
pages
• sorrow predominates over joy, and that during
its perusal their sympathy will be evoked more fre-
quently than their smiles.

THE DREAMER AND THE WORKER.
By B. 11. Horne, author of "Orion." 2 lois.
Colburn.
The author of " Orion" has here taken up his pen
in a cause well deserving of the ability and earnest-
ness with which he advocates it. While illustrating
the peculiar characteristics and distinctions of
a Dreamer and Worker," Mr. Horne's ultimate ob-
ject is to demonstrate the individual importance of
each. The eye and the hand are no less equally
essential to the artist than are both dreamers and
ainr
crworkers,noym peent to the ttehefeoarrmywithout a general, are similarly
any
practicable
ra c t commonweal.ie abAl e generalgood.
o o d .
By
mu-
tualan
of the„ dreamer and the worker,
h
nothings of the one obtain
a tangible reality, and the material labours
of the other are reduced to fairer proportions and di-
rected to higher aims. In this endeavour to award
te co
, :oapirey ration
the honour due alike to the toiling brain and the toil-
ing band, Mr. Horse has our cordial sympathy ; but
his task does not end here. In his admirable por-
trait of Harding,theperwseevearirneg,resmelief-deteadchitnhga,t self-
dependentthe labourer,
worker, honourable though his lot, as such, may be,
is by no means to rest content with being only a
worker. His heart and intellect are not to be waste
because his hand is cunningly instructed. In the ex-
ample of Harding it is shown how moral and mental
culture, instead of, raising the workman
" above his station, and making hiss " un-
fitwhile advocating with energy the value
o
and laborious
for his position,', as the saying goes,
only render him more aware of the true dignity
of labour, and more zealous in the performance of its
duties. So,
mauotnhosrr asnexiously desires,
" to put beauty into his
encourages him in his leisure
ecuomrit,
as osf übe happily e,
handiwork
hpial
p,aoipnoi
ltf
yhpi
Harding,
expressesaa
ecr
ndt dicnabgl
hours not to seek practical knowledge only,
but even to read poetry. It may 2 be objected
that all working men are not so well adapted as Hard-
ing to receive such instruction, but the principle
laid down in his case will bear a wide application.
While Harding is a " worker" and something more,
Archer is purely and solely an inhabitant of Dream-
land ; and here we think Mr. Horne has not suffi-
ciently pointed out the via media that should to a
certein extent assimilate those opposite characters.
While the " worker" as a man is entitled to the intel-
ligent pleasures of humanity, so the "dreamer," on the
other hand, and by the same law, mint to some ex-
tent become a partaker in the labours enjoined upon
humanity. It is as incumbent upon him to give the
world the benefit of his dreams as it is to the work-
man to give the labour of his hands. Some advice of
this kind is very forcibly addressed to Archer
by a brother dreamer, in which he, desponding
became disappointed, is enjoined not to relapse into
idleness because immediate success is denied to his