Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-08-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CORNHILL MAGAZINE.—" The Atonement of Leant Dumas" gets the place of honour. T,he tale starts off with great sprightlinese, and in the first chapter the reader is introduced to as many families as might fill up half a dozen good tales. There is therefore no lack of "raw material" from which to mould a fascinating story. And that it will be fascinating is already guaranteed. The inhabitants of North Aston are desciibed with a brilliancy 01 touch which brings up the living figures in bold relief before the reader. There are many quiet villages like North Aston; but there are perhaps taw with an many striking " individualities '' in it. In the person of Madame Is Marquise de Montfort an inhabitant of marked individuality is introduced, and to her we must look for the brilliant touches which will embellish the tale. The old rect ir has already become enchanted with the ay nonchallant air and demeanour of the " widow," who may already with gaiety be called an adventurer. As the etare are already working in her favour, we may rest eon. tented to leave her in the hands of the rector and his charming wife.—Great stress is often laid—by those who desire to throw discredit on the Bible—on the teachings of the Khr,r,az and the Talmud. We commend to our readers a careful perusal of the article in Conshill on the latter. There are many excellent injunctions in the Talmud, similar to the Proverbs of Solomon, and well worth careful perusal :  "Three virtu,,s will be especially proclaimed in heaven—the virtue of a young man who lives pure in a large city, the virtue of a poor man who restores a lost treasure, the virtue of a rich man who gives without ostentation." "Every sin is allied to ignorance." " Never cast a atone into a well out of which you have once drunk." " Who cares not for the sick is all one with a murder.T." "He who lent money should try not to meet him to whom he has lent it." The holse which opens not to the poor will open to the phydeian." "It is," says Gittim, "a duty to support and protect the poor of other nations as well as those of Israel," a doctrine which Sir Moses Montefi ow has nut left unobserved. There is almost an excess of charity in Kiddu,hint, where we are told a servant should be treated as oneself, with the same kind of table, of food, of bed ; not the lord to be on a soft bed, bat the servant on one of straw; not the lord to eat delicate dishes, but course food to be given to the servant." " A camel dances in a pint pot," is a proverb to reprehend exaggeration. Of the uncertainty of life they say, " Many old o melts eirry to market the skins of young ones," as the German Die Allen begraben eft ihre Angels. Of respect to instructors : "He .who learns of another a single letter should for that letter respect him." Mainionides says, "Its man's fcher and his Rabbi having both lost something, the man should first seek that lost by the Ribbi." So a Rabbi is to be redeemed from slavery before a parent; for a parent is only responsible for his child's body, but the Rabbi is respon"ible for his mind. Among those things which bring old age into the world is the phlebotomist Pharisee, the Blin lschleieher, as Buxtonf happly cell him. The term is applied to those who, out of egregioss chastity, walk with half-shut eyes lest by chance they should look on a woman and long after her, and so run foul against a wall, and retire, alas! no wiser, with bruised and bleeding brows. "Go down sled ter," it is written in Nashim, "to a chose a wife; go up the la&ler to 'hose a friend.' 80 Juvenal Infolerabiliur wihil est quasi forntina dives. It is also g dlautly writ:en, " A garland of roses for a Kiri, and of nettles for an old woman." There are eight things which in a great degree are troublesome, but in a sm ill degree delightful. 'They are—Walking, love, work, wine, sleep, hot water, riches, and bleeding.