New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-19


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THE GoNDoN) QUARTERLY REVIEW; April, 1861.
Il, scott 4 Co RepubiicHiru.)
The staunch old Quarterly" opens this time
with very amusing paper entitled "Ihe Pearls
and Mock Pearls of History" showing, umoog
other things, how little reliance is to be placed
on most of the famous sayings which bnye been
placed Ivy historians in the mouths OF illus'rious
men. The keynote of the article is found ia
Voltaire's remark that 4" as for the greater num-
Dor Of the stories with which the are stuffed,
including all those hun, rous replies attributed to
Charles The Fifth TO Henry the Fourth, to
hundred modern princes, you find them IN Athe-
neas and in our old authors. 1t is in this sense
only that one may say there s nothing new uD-
der the SUM-" For instance the epigrammitic
ID 10 ,fS Sue
on the revOc alton of the edct OF Mates by Louis
the Fourteeath, "lIe has cut oil his left arm
with his right" properly belongs to Valentinian.
That of the peasant to toe same monarch, at
is useless to enlarge your park at Versailles; you
Will always have neghtOrs," is found in Apu-
leius, aud has also been placed ia ibe mouth Of
a Norfolk laborer, with reference to the lordly
domain Of IIolkham.
Commodore BlDgs, in bis account OF bis
Expedition to the Northern Coasts of Russia, says
that, when he and Mr. Main we're on the river
Kobina, they were attended by young man
from Kauoga an island between kamchatka aud
North America. One day Dir. Main asked him,
" What will the sayages d. 10 me If | fall into
their powerl" "Slr," sid the youth, You
will never fail into their power, II j remain Win
YOU. | always carry q sharp knife; and II see
YOU pursued and unable to escape, VIII plunge
nv knife into your heart; then those savngrs can
do nothing mere o. YOU" The same arrangement
seems to have been contemplated BY The French
knight. whose answer to Queen Margaret IL re-
ported by Jopyille. Swear to me sara the
Queen, that, if the Saracens become masters OF
Damietta, you will cut of my head before they
can take me-" Willingly" replied TIE knight,
| bad already thought of doing so, # the con-
tingency arrived"
Flores, describing the battle in which Catline
iell, says: Not Que of the enemy survived the
conflict" The day uftrr the battle Of Rocroy a
French officer asked Spanard what were the
numbers Of their veteran infantry before tho battle
You have only" said be-. $40 count the dead
and the prisoners" A Russian officer, on being
asked the number of the troops to which he had
been opposed poiuted TO the field Of death, say
ing, You may count them; they are all there.
II is related of Pompey tDat when the danger
Of a voyage, 10 broR provisions for Rome IN a
scarcity was pressed upon him, he replied, "lhe
VOYAGE is necessary, but my lie is not" Mar
shall SAKE, starting for the campaign of Font--
nov at the risk Of his life, said TO Voltairo, 1T
is not the question OF living, but of going"
Votaire himself when demonstrated with by his
friends against attending the rehearsal Of
Irene" replied Tho question is not to live,
but to have my tragedy played Racine had
anticipated both Vollairc aud Marshal Sake BY
line in 'Berenics." But speak not of living;
we must reign" yoltaire, according to the Old
story. when told that he was very generous in
praising Halter, since Haller had spoken Ia just
the contrary way of him, replied, 81 dare say we
were both very much mistaken" But the same
idea had been expressed long before Voltaire.
Iibapius writes to AristanetUs, A" You are always
speaking Ill OF me; but speak nothing except
good Of you. do you not fear that neither OF
us will be believed" So too Themlstocles who
in ms greatness was courted by person who
had -despised him in his low estate, remarked,
Z" We have both grown wise, but too late"
The aDecdote Of Southampton reading 1.-The
Faery Queer" while Spenser was waiting in the
ante.chamber, may match the story related of
Louis XIV As this monarch was going over
the improvements Of Versaies with lie Notre,
the SIGHT OF each fresh beauty tempts him 10
some fresh extravaganza. till the architect cries
out, that If their promenade is continued in this
fashion it will end in the bankruptcy Of the
State. Southampton, after sending first twenty
aDd THEN ffly guineas, on coming to one fine
passage after another, at length eAc!aims, " Turn
the fellow ont Of the house, or | shall be ruined.
Ia the scene Of "IIenry VI" where Lord