The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-23

youth, engaged with n carpenter and made chairs
and tables. Claude Lorraine, whose palntlngs are
to be found in the most valuable cabinets IN Eu-
rope, was formerlNa pastry cook Metastasio, the
celebrated Italian poet, used, when boy, to sing
his verses about the streets for moreel Of bread
Diligence, industry and perseverance,, with.
prayer for Gods blessings, will do wonders. Hope
on, boye; and hope alwaysl
Lanctofts s'Chronicle in French verse, from
Brut to the end of tho reign Of Edward the LIST, !"
famous for it's translation. into English verse by
Robert of Brunne, is being edited by Mr: Thomas
Wright for the series Of Chronicles and Memorials
published under the direction Of the Master OF the
Rolls. Ehe first volume has appeared this week
70 the sage series Mr.. Cockayne adds third vol
ume of papers illustrating what he aected!y Calls
Leechdoms, "Wortcunning and Starcraft OF Eally
England" His preface contains an excellent art aTg9-
ment for what may probably be the fact that 4sfnc
the erammarian is not to be Identified with Elfic
the Archbishop Of Canterbury !.
M. Victor Cousin has left his collection OF books,
said to be of great value, to the Sorbonne, IN tho
following clause: 81 bequeath to the sorbonne my
best work-nly library" One OF the OLD Ph!oso-
pher's political sarcasms is repeated in Parisian
houyes: ssYou are young fellow" he is reported
to have said to friend few weeks ago, stake
GOOD advice and save money. If not, you will pre-
bare for yourself dishonored old age. If not,
hairs are gray yos VIII have no
of Cousins bon aaots would make an admirable
commentary on current history.
A correspondent Of the London Morning Star
writes s'Who shall say that literature is not be-
coming fashionable, when the Atheneum an.
nounces that the Queen is understood to- be OF
work upon a book, with the assSeance OF MIR.
Arthur Helps, compiling q work OF great, impor'
tance; and yet as to which the world is wholly in
ignorance-the life of the late Prince Consort? The
name of the publishing firm which has been fortu'
nate enough to secure the copyright Is not an, a.
nounced, but what sensation the; publication will
create / Then tae Duke Of ArgylPs eldest son
the Marquis Of Lorne, a young gentleman only just
of ago, has commissioned Messrs. Hurst q Black
cit to publish the narrative of the Trip to the
Tropics which he made last year"
A new phase has been given this year to the
literature Of valentines, and the love OF young
ladies' is cow invoked for o spouse who ls not o.
this earth! ] hey are asked in The Christian Val
entino to yield their hearts to sthe loving One,'
whose affection for them will be something warm
er than that of any child Of the world. Hero is
sample of one verse out Of nine, all Of which sohcl
pious young nnaidens to '1ove your Valentine p
Read his inspired lines;
Christ for ever marry,
The best Of Valentines.
Young Agnes is then referred to Can't. 1O16; ano
certainly the fifteenth verse teaches her how earth
ly marriages may be followed by much proftless
consequences. ..asS
Pathological students in England have discovered
that the slang sense in which the word jolly il
used by fast young ladies and their 'smen" is mo-
slang They point out that in q serious theological
work published two centuries back-"John Traps
Commentary on the Old and New Testament
London, l656-T'-is to be read, "All was jolly
quiet at Ephesus before st. Paul came hither:" "a
century earlier" says Mr. j. B. Shaw, In Notes
and Queries" ssNorth, in his translation OF plu
tarch's Lives, uses the words thus: Tt (the vino
which some call ceciasl bloweth Jolly cool wind.
apple of Sodom: which, though it may entertain
his eye with forid, jolly white and red, yet DC.
the term is used adjectiyely (oide Johnson. ).t II
the Tanning Of the Shrew (Act iii, &C. Katherine
| says to Petruchio-
..Tis Like you'll prove jolly surly groom"
An interesting contribution to our political his.
tory ~ viii viii. soon be made in the publication, BY
Messrs Hurd & Houghton, of an elaborate review
OF the origin and course of parties In the Unitec
States written by the late President Van Burer
lu1 ing his retirement at Lndenwald, This review
which we're left in Oh unfinished and unrevised
state, breaking off q little before MIR. Van Buren's
Administration as President, and which, II pub.
lished in full would be ,yoluminous and, after all
only fragment. The episode on parties was
found, separately considered, to be more complete
and to require little revision. Under these cir
curnstances, tho SONS Of MIR. Van B,iron to whom
T his papers were lett have decided to publish the
latter by ITSELF and to place the memoirs, as vel
the ether iaess9e9Ss papers @ Ia1teX Mr var
is engaged upon an elaborate biography Of the
Ex-President. g.. ss'
In an article on ssThe Clergy and the Pulpit,
The Saturday Review thus accounts for the alleged
dullness Of sermons '.For why are sermons dull'
The main reason, we take it, is that given in rather
coarse form in the common proyerb, that you
can't make asilk purse out Of sows ear: A large
portion Of the clergy cannot be otherwise than dull
Their speeches are dull, their letters are dull theia
conversation is dull, except when you want actual
information from them whichthey happen to pos
sess. We arc not speaking in contempt in saying
this. We merely mean that wit n the sources q
intellectual excitement SO abundant as they now
are on every side, the merely average man can
hardly expect to speak continuously upon any SUBJ
ject in a way to interest nm intelligent listener:
Let any one who has been at college try to recall
to his mind the average capacity Of those Of his
comPaniops who have taken orders and then 1 re- re-
most part that educated portion of the clergy
whose gradual supersession by tho iterates is be.
coming. q subject of such constant complaint, that
mon not being very thrilling performance"