Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-04

far more vivid interest than any fctnn; a
homey narrative of one of the millions of hui
man histories, any one Of which if painted in
truth and mnuteneSs, contain lessons of inf
mite power. Keynes history could not but be
interesting as the private life of the profound
est of modern scholars; but aside from this,
there is an under current of meaning in it that
commends itself to every thoughtful, earnest
mind.
In a story like this,-the story of battle for
fifty years between strong, rugged nature, in~
spircd with an unyielding, dogged resistance, a
litter. defiance, against most evil fate which
like "unmerciful disaster, followed last and fol-
lowed faster" upon his steps ina hand,to-hand
deathly struggle through want disease, staryas
tion,-snTcly there is n more real human inter
est and lesson then in all descriptions of Agin-
court or Waterloo.
We commend the book to our readers 1t
will lead them into scenes of coarscst poverty;
most painful want of soul and body; but it
has in 1T bitter strength like medicinal wine.
They will rise from its perusal stronger, more
earnest, truthful men. The opening chapter
finds our hero child OF ten, the son Of a wea-
yer 10 little village in Sicsia. \ sullen sell
fish boy enough helping his motherin her work
in The flcids selling for he's, one aIticlc al their
poor furniture after another to supply their
daily bread, yet, beneath his sto!ih dullnesS,
nursing strange ambition he bad caught some
where, to become the most learned man in Ger
many. How this desire, impossible to all others,
Cnad enough !; must have saclnod even to him.
self At timesj became the lif, ii his liie fought
with his most adverse fortune ans! conquered it
at last. gives tic book its intense charm. At
that age, Got temp he began to lay his pIaDs for
the lnturc, i,c.,tt tlicn 20 teach formoncy Bat
his plans were bati..l 1T every tur,., b. s;arva.
ticn at home, dsri-iop from The Villagers, the
Only world he knew, and, worst Of Mi. Ills own
doubts of his capacity. "Beforc was a man, !"
he says, cray ambition. was gone, had no
hope OF snccess. Butt struggled on, urged by
81 dcfant obsunacy. could MT yield"
at whetwe would think the advanced age oil.
twcnty.thre"i llevne found hin,sci freed from.
his festo"' power. and sci down in Lci,,sis
without friends, without looks with one coat
and five shiiiings in his purse, TO bs.in
the conquest of MI human knowlelgc.-
Through what almost incredible want anl
pain lie passed we Iiayc not time to picture.
Eleven years after we tjnd him still! in I.eipS;ey,
tail gaunt mar, worn By suffering anil pIira.
ton, his principal food, as IIccrcn tsls MS,
being the entity peasc pods which he collect,
on tie streets aud bo;!ei Yet, to Shoy OF
what staff the man was tnudc, i.e tells us that,
at this time situation commanding an ample
salary was offered him, which he refused with
ont u moments thought, knowing that it would
remove him from the course lac had hid out for.
himself. The never ending succession Of
thwarted efforts, of desperate attempts and dis
appointments in his life, arc most painful to
read even now. Not until his life was past it's
prime did the long delayed reward come Then
the full sunshine of prosperity burst on him at
once. OPulence even luxury, surrounded him
in his old age, and while he still lived, he was
awarded his position a. the most profound
scholar in Europe We have noticed this book
50 earnestly, as VIC hntcd before because Of its
great lesson, that there is no fate SO adverse, no
circumstance so obdurate that will not yield at
last 90 the constant slow effort of rcsolutc
purpose. Oae episode in the book we caauot
pass by in silence. DAILY cnousl, TIC lii. of
this coolest and most prusaic OF men vas gilded
by a touch Of romance, "oue Of the most pa
thctic," as CARLYLE says, "in biography" While
lie was still at I4cipSi., toiling, half>s.arvcd and
half-clotAed, thinking and caring for nobody, ne
Suspect, but himself, he found but one friend
and that was woman, beautiful, brilliant and
Of high birth 'Ihe story of Theresa WEIR"
Carlyle adds, us one OF tile most beautiful
and simple in history. Her love for Hcyne is
the one green myrtle oasis in his hard and.stor
my life"
Even the coarse IIrcrcn finds delicate ,roI