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leen, which ar

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praised in an appendix to appear in

;e for May.

Edinburgh : Tait,

t number, the best part of which is " Lays of the

Would-be Laureates

Duncan, Professor. Liverpool : C. Vv-illmer

In recommending this book we do not speak favourably of

t because Mr. DI

inciples of Dr. Rush, in hi

here propoun

founded upon the scientific pr
" Philosophy of the Huwan Voice,'

irding to a method

and unfolds the art of

make good orators

e prac tic,

rhetorical punctuation, and r

ach can scarcely fail to

exercises on reading

thmus, s,

n to be exc

adapted for tl

view, and the entire production

THE LATE RICHARD ARKWRIGHT, ESQ

:umulat

already announced th

raise of this

f not less tiia

of his vast prope

Rected vi

from t
it is reported
1 person.)

1..5• au !individual cipitalist'a

in Europe at the pr
the dist

perhaps, the e
6olotnon Heine, of Han

:cepting

,ective of

e is not one

s estimated to concentrate in his owr

Mu of money values to the vast
It must be remembered, however,
whole property of Mr. Heine,
vright was possessed of landed

o can approach withigghalf
-silent no less-than
accordin

[lts the

s perhaps one or two mil
s rated.

Immense;

;c., of Europe,
placed at all in
n out

which t
the Barings, the Rothschilds, the Hope
there is not, has not been, one that could
I the magnificent fortune
ital rerr

the comparison : no

of, with all the vast c;
house of Baling would

,ot all tt

xinin; still in, the princely
all combined reach to the
tals of all the Rntharhild.

ealthy as are

iughout Europe t

ether equal probably more than one-
half the enormous mass of accumulated herds left behind by
the late Mr. 4rkwright. Out of Europe the only capitalist
who could approach the comparison would be Mr. Astor, of
New York, whose name will be familiar with all travellers
from the massive and magnificent pile of buildings which, as
Astor's Hotel, has administered to their convenience—a
building which, of the description, and for the specia
use, stands unparalleled in the whole world : with thi
palatial structure it must be understood that Mr. Astor nei
ther was nor is otherwise connected than as planner and pro
prietor. and as forming part of his vast estate. The reports
current about the enormous wealth created and accumulated
by this extraordinary man carry it as high as sixteen or se-
venteen millions of dollars, or say about four millions ster-
ling - but of course whilst he is living this can only be mat-
ter Of conjecture, though perhaps not far from the truth. In
illustration of the fact, however, a curious anecdote has been
in circulation in the United States. During the lifetime of
the late Stephen Girard, who from a Door outcast exile from

. ........
St. Domingo driven out by thelormer slave population, be-
came the great banker and capitalist of Philadelphia, it was
a subject of something like rival contention between the peo-
ple of Philadelphia and New York which possessed the
greatest capitalist—that is, which was the more wealthy man,
Girard or Astor. Doubtless the question was not without

its interest to the money-making parties themselves. The
death of one or the other, or of both, could however alone
speculations, and in the former case then only to
Accordingly on the death of Stephen Girard
go the actual extent of his wealth was verified

survivor

ion of his testament, by which the largest
was bequeathed for the establishment and sup-
)rt of literary and public institutions. When Mr. Astor
• • • total sum of Girard's wealth reached
millions of dollars, he is re-

was informed that t

only to son,

to have exhibited signs of satisfaction, and in an under
o himself, to have remarked " that
g of course that it did not come up

'—meanir

spfaoctor of Sir
a-rd Arkwright, the founderand father of the
the
He succeeded to all the posses-
y

was the on

as it now exists

1792, then estirr

value, capital stock

alf a mil

spinn

.rwards

were countec

of by farthings, as now, ex-
be safely asserted that by his