The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-30

isea seems to 10 be asr led with many prsccs
difficulties to be successfully carried out ghs Of
The life AND WORKS Of samuel Butler the author q "Hu
bras" l. an interesting and well written paper There
Is curious fact connected WITH the Of hi
fast which shows that may latent talents
Of high order without ising son eous Of tho fact
Butler fifty years a. ago ber,re he much %
heard Il BY his contemporaries. lie was born in loI2 aud
il rot until the end OF 1902 that the At part Of
"Hudibras" was given to the world The fio~iug &C
count Of his introduction to Lore Dorset T. characteristics
Of the man -
His 10, dsbp having gfea, desire 70 spend an even
ing asa private eentlsman sia the su hor 81 Huii.
bras" yrevaied with Mr. Fert~ Nod Shepherd iato-
duce HIM into hts company Mt tAve ~hic1 they used,
10 the character ooy 81 eommoa friend This being
core Mr. Butler wfe the FIRST bottle was drinking
Feared very fiat heavy ut the ssssnt bottle brisk
ana lively tul Of wit and learning ana mot ayr
bic coupsuioo but before the thiri bous nuih he'd
he sunk sgsn into such stupidity ans diine.r tass
hardy cody ccul have hreve4 him "a he the satho-
OF book which abouDded wi n much wiz e.rong and
pleasantly Neat morning Mr. sbeohsrd srs-d hts Lprd
ID o's olirion II Butter who answered $ tie ,s ike
nicerip little at Goth ends but great in the Middle"
The porce Of Dr. verrons Memoirs den Bourgs,ise, !"
and NJ. Neremsnt's sHis'ore de la Literature Fran.
ease,n presents with picy compsri OF the morals
French society under Louis rhppe's reizn, and under
the republican imleiia rsctmss The following
doc ofI Wis Philippe shows how little respect h.es
sire" ssid Of the most really itu,i,nsi OF
his minister 10 this monarch "your Majesty does
pay suicieni attention 30 ths Chamber Of GERS; If It he
no., h. fact, the hire power. II l. mere i.i
than useless - {" And VIVA, ~ouid you bsvo me dor
inquired rhs King Sire, ud have your Majesty add
the numbers OF the uppe House som. whose
should be 70 the country serious guarantees OF
poc,l activity s2rinkling ot Intelligence add energy
would 10 well at tbs Lox mbouIgn ..Ahi bah p was
Louis Philippes reply; "ip,elligsoce energy proper
vte- good balls de lonncs tous) that l. what Is
ed" Tho minister shook his head = Nonsense ~
.T t.ssS a Aav fsvar
sbe a. my policy registered Ia every paper that Ia
erouFh-the public does moi Inquire Into 81 hi.-i.
,esds be paper the ms ,rity Ia ever shere and al
ways for me, doss not sby ani beisves In he
whole in the end ~ much fesr tho king mistaken"
raid the nDister-but his advice rem sined UNATTENDED
The article on Fielding aud rhaekersy' attempss
comparison which is untenabe. There but tes real
tTai OF resemblance between those writer's.
The EDINBURGH REVIEW American edition. Leo
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TIE October number Of this periodical contains va.
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inert will be read with mos, interest here. The extra.
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top to pub oIinion tie other side Of the water Il
explain by The writer to be owing the fact th.t
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points 81 home policy at least btou usually the side
justice freedom ana popuiaf in provemen, The oGec
Of tie law repeating the stamp duties, has been to
inert the c cuton ~ the Tina and 70 diminish that
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penny papers cannot possibly succeed aud that thoy will
probably be Discontinued almost imnse iselya ous
result, II II should turn out 10 correct
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