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uTNs litlle Man ,oilt The great Mind.'

Such is The appellation which recent
French periodical beslows upon that great
statesman of France--M. Adolphe Theirs
Ia man who by dint of perseverance aud
un,iring application 10 mental cultivation
and the affairs of-diplomacy, overcame
The prejudices OF The mass TO his low BIRTH
aud vulgar station. Like Claude Melnolle,
he rausomed himself at once from the diff
ficulties Of his position and from the grasp
of .'irou (ortune,s with ..such jewels as the
exploring mind bringsffrom the caves oil
knowledge He showed to,thesworld, in
spite of forbiddins exterior and no ap-
pro ach towards sSease OF department, the
vas,ness Of his intellectual capaciles and
the inGomitable- nature of. his ambition.
Without friends, without pecuniary, per-
sonal or any ,extraneous advantages, he
has become Que Of the most distinguished
men of modern stimes. A brilliant aud
mastery sketch of NJ. Thiers had been
contributed to late number oflhe Dublin
Universal Magazine, from which we ex-
tract the following graphic delinealion.-
Boston Traveller.
NJ. Thiers is the essence Of mind; he is
intellect to The tips of his lips and the
points of his nails.-Hls organization is
like that Of Voltare, frail, delicate and
mobile. He has the caprices and nanghli.
ness Of child, with the assumption and
gravity of a philosopher. More man Of
letters than statesman, aud more an ar
tist than man of letters, he will dote upou
an Elruscan vase aud care little for liber
,y. As a Cabinet Minister, he conceives
great designs; like woman, he is bold
in small matters. He has courage, but it
fSis like that of delicate and sickly people
it comes in (everish its. ending by nervous
attacks aud fainiins fits: these, weakness
es are only tolerated on sofas;;sin politics,
fainling is not suffered.
He thinks without effort. produces with
out exhaustion. advances without fatigue.
and arrays his ideas before you with a ra-
spidi.y which is inconceivabla. Have you
,sseyerseeu in the steamboats, which traverse
! our rivers, the banks reflected in the sus.
pended mirrors They are reflected while
the boat advances--fair villages, churches
with taperins spires. verdant meadows,
hoary mountains, gay vessels, the locks of
the valleys, the clouds ofheaven, animals
and men, seem 10 fly past in rapid success
sion in the glass. Such is NJ. Theirs. A
sort of Parliamentary mirror, he reflects
the passions of Others and cold and hard as
the glass is, without passions himself. He
weeps, but his eyes are fearless; he pier
ces his breast with poignard, but draws
no drop of. blood /; mere drama all that
= ,h,, .,,h,
actor !--What nature, what suppleness,
what powers Of insInualon, what inhex
ions of voice; what transparency and lu-
cidity of style; what negligent grace of
language!
He is more elastic than spring of the
finest s.eel--he bends and unbends--he
rises aud falls with his subject--he will roll
himself spirally round question from its
base to its summil--he mounts, desceuds,
remounts, hangs in The branches, hides
himself in the thickesl foliage, appears,
disappears, and passes a thousand times ir
ard out with :he pretty agility Of squir.
rel--he would extract money from stone
where others glean,s he reaps. He ex-
tends his pldmage and shows, by turns,
every bue of purple, gold and azure. He
does not speak, he Fcoos--he does DOL coo,
he lisps-hef does not lisp, he warbles-
and he is so dazzling ho,h to The eye and
to the ear, that one does not know which
to admire most, his plumage or his song.
He will give you speech of three hours
length on architecture, poetry, law, navi
CATION or war, and yet he is neither a po-
10 cnlIioy oil
he will require is an evenings pre- paration.
/ he describes battle he astonishes the
oldest generals. If he speaks of walls,
roofs, stones and mortar you would actu.
ally believe him to be mason or all ar
chilect. lie will dispute with Gay Lussac
on questions Of chemistry, and teach Ara
90 how to direct his telescope al Venus or
Jupiter.
The fine arts, canals, roads, finances,
commerce. history, the press, politics,
anecdotes Of The street, theatres, war, liter
ature, religion. municipalities. morality,
amusements, great things, middlins things,
little things-what does il matter 10 him,
he is ready al all. lie is so, because in
fact he is prepared upou nothing. lie
does mol speak like other orators. because
he speaks like people Of the world. Other
orators prepare themselves. more or less,
but he improvises; other orators pcrora,e,
but he chas.
If NJ. Thiers spoke slower, lie would be
less listened to; but his volublily is such
that the House cannot 60 before him or
even follow him. Once started, he pro.
ceeds at full gallop, from the morning to
the evening.
The Science Of Dunning.--' say, Jac-
ques, this dunnins is easily reduced TO a
science and art. A boot maker desires
me 10 collect bill Of twenty dollars a.
gainst clergyman, the Rev. Mr.. Trues.
dell; you know him, Jacques! A man of
talen,-great talent, great talent, great
virtue-particaa friend o. niue Wcnl
TO see him-couldu', pay. Called The
next day on his pretty wife-fne woman,
finest eye in New York-got on the tender
side Of her-she promised 10 make her