The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-21

tiny; but no sooner did be begin to feel it, than
Congreve, seeming to read his feelings, with.
drew the gaze, and Jasper felt at home again.
We pass over several years.
Ihere Is no need that we sheuld.rehearse how
Jasper abided another year with his tutor, be.
ing drilled in verb and equation, and having
himself yet more tightly riveted in letters
which were not the less strong because their
links we're OF rose leaves. We need not par.
ticniar'ze the parting between Jasper and Ruth,
when, ITO speak Laura. Matida-ice, which, in
spite OF all Mr.. 1hackeray's scafpel handling
ana occasional vitriOlism, is at times most
excellent way of speaking, and takes admirably
with the most charming segment of Creation
circle-the young ladies, God bless 'em, and
the old ones too, for that matter the air was
agitated with the intensity of murmured vows,
anu cheeks were damp with profuse tears,
tnrobong- hearts, head on shoulder bent sobs
ana Kisses bent, silent agony, &c.--nor need
we ilnger to speak of the mingled absurdity of
grief, and paihos Of fatherly adsnonition, into
which the bbliopolist was reused when his
dear pupil shook biz hand and babe him fare well,
receiving IN return an earnest God be with
you."
We will not rehesrse Jasper's doings ct col
lege, from the time he entered Junior" until
the day when, just before winning his diploma,
an unlucky bottle of champagne too much cut
nlni Oh from hopes of an immediate degree
An American college, TO an outsider, and to
one who bases his Judgment upon the catalogue,
ana upon the general appearance of things
casually viewed, resembles very much that
monster which we are wont to denominate
!" humbug.' And, in good truth, if we pro
nounce upon it only so far forth as it fuls its ex
pressed intentions, it is, emphaticaliy, hum
bug-a Beau Brummel for a man, George
Fourth as the embodiment of royalty. They
(Messieurs the " Faculty " and Trustees) prom
Use US an educstion-classieal, for instance
and provide US text books to which there are al
ways TRANSACTIONS and Authors notes con
venient attended with lectures to which q
sleepy audience is compliment, since they
deserve no audience at all; or they hold up
mathema tical schedule, and the parent, dream
ing OF eminent civil engineers and fortunes
made at surveying &c, posts off Young Hope
ful, to avail himself of the " course" Such
curriculum it is, to be sure The lectures on
surveying are admirable. There used to be a
set of instruments, but they exist in memory
only, now, (some Sophomore young rascals are
additionally said to have broken them up, even
lettering the {" Doctors" luckless COW with the
chain,") and therefore we teach the art by
diagram, Pleno ore. Here you have pond,
$1,000
me mine acres interjacent. Given the sides
and the angles, what SO easy as to triangulate?
Thus we learn surveying.
But our higher course" there we excel.
Without doubt, they do. Our scholar, from
his imperfect Algebra, is straightway hoisted
upon the Hottest peaks of the most transcenden-
tai purisms of calculary abstrusities (sic, dear
reader: am by far more comprehensive than
they BEL and, as he quivers there in amazed
bewilderment, giddy and blind at such rapid
superlativeness, volley after volley of formulate,
in as orderly arrangement, aud as ineligible
as the wind scattered prophetic leaves of syca-
more upon which the Sybil of Panz1ust in
scribed the destinies of Psnurge, are discharg-
ed about his ears from the vaticinatory lips of
some inspired professor, until he wishes Do
phantus, Leibniz, La Place, and the whole crew,
to the devil, and, as proof of his sincerity uses
their volumes for lighters to his pipes. Nor do
we wonder at it, so entirely uncongenial is the
practical cbarsaat,nre of these theories to the
Does thinks hey an , 81 IN American youth:
OF the cycloidal curve teach us the principles of
clock making2 Does the formula