Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1875-08-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CORNRILL MAGAZINE.—" The Atonement of Learn Dumas" gets the place of honour. The sale starts off with great sprightliness, 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 described with a brilliancy of 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 few with so many striking " individualities " in it. In the person of Madame la Marquise de Montfort an inhabitant of marked individuality is introduced, and to her we must look for the brilliaut touches which will embellish the tale. The old rector has already become enchanted with the easy nonchallant air and demeanour:of the" widow," who may already with safety be called an: adventurer. As the stars are already working in her favour, we may rest contented 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 %her= and the Talmud. We commend to our readers a careful perusal of the article in Cornhil/ on the latter. There are many excellent injunctions in the Talmud, similar to the Proverbs of Solomon, and well worth careful perusal : Three virtues 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 stone into a well out of which you have once drunk." " Who cares not for the sick is all one with a murderer." "He who lent money should try not to meet him to whom he has lent it." "The house which opens not to the poor will open to the physician." "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 Montefiore has not left unobservel. There is almost an excess of charity in Kiddu.him, 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, but the servant on one of straw; nut 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 reprohend exaggeration. Oi the uncertainty of life they say, " Many old climbs carry to market the skins of young ones," u the German Die elites begraben oft ihre Junges. Of respect to instructors "He who learns of another a single letter should for that letter respect him." Maimonides says, "II a man's father 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 responsible for his mind. Among those things which bring old age into the world is the phlebotomist Pharisee, the Btindschleieher, as Bnxtorf happly call him. The term is applied to those who, out of egregioas chastity, walk with half-shut eyes lest by chance they should look on a woman and long after her, and so run foul agaiust a wall, and retire, alas ! no wiser, with bruised and bleeding brows. "Go down aladder," it is written in Nashim, "to a chose a wife; go up the ladder to chose a friend." So Juvenal Intolerabilius nihil eat quart fcemina dives. It is also gallantly written, "A garland of roses for a ;rill, and of nettles for an old woman." There are eight things which in a great degree are troublesome, but in a small degree delightful. They are—Walking, love, work, wine, sleep, hot water, riches, and bleeding.