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be a masterpiece. I see that it is adver- | tized."

“Indeed! This is news to me,” said Catherine; for, to my bitter disappointment, I had neither letter or paper from him this morning. Indeed, I suppose he means to surprise me, for he has been silent for some weeks. But I attributed it to the illness of his relative, a miserly old tradesman in London, who, for some years has allowed him a gentlemanly income, and at his death will leave him a considerable fortune."

"This is well," said Mr. Farquhar. "Means to rest upon is an absolute necessity, if literature is to be pursued with an unbroken spirit, and with an ultimate purpose of high intent. And my object, somewhat in asking you to come here to-night is to sue for leave to make your remaining days free from troubles of a pecuniary kind. I have the means."

"You may have, but I have no right to them so make no attempt of the kind, for it will be utterly useless. A book or two you may leave me, if you like-nothing more. And," she added solemnly, and lowering her voice, "for the pain I caused you -for the mistake I made-will you, in the profound charity of this time and hour, forgive me ?"

"I will, I will," he said, with choked utterance," more readily, and more truly if you will tell me one thing. Did you ever love me?"

"I did! I do!" she said vehemently. "I have drained the bitter cup of deep regret, if such confession makes atonement."

She could say no more; so she rose even as she spoke, and prepared to go.

He put a book into her hand he had been reading: and as he gave it, she pressed her lips down on his fingers.

This was her sole farewell, as it was his; and so they parted. When she once more gained the air the snow had ceased, the moon and stars were shining, and a deep peace seemed brooding both far and near.

Little was said during the drive to St. John's; and when there she alighted and went in alone. Tib had not yet returned; but as soon as she was within and had got a light, she became aware that some one knocked at a door at the rear. Hurrying thither, she found a country bumpkin holding a parcel and a letter in his hand

"If ye please, missus, I bin a-knocking till 'ee bones be sore like. Mrs. Snibson's warry sorry; but she'd such a lot to think on with the beef and puddin as to make this yere parcel and letter go clean out on her head. So you must just forgive her, missus."

Catherine proved that she did so by giving the bumpkin a shilling and dismissing him.

She came back into the parlor, tore the post cover off the thick and noble looking volume, and found, as she suspected, that it was Oliver Romney's book, and, to her great surprise, that it was simply and briefly dedicated to herself. Then she read his letter, explaining his some weeks' silence by his desire to surprise her with the gift of the first copy of his book on Christmas Day. It said, too, that his uncle was dead and buried, and that, when affairs contingent thereto, were settled, he should be the master of a handsome yearly income. Means would be, therefore, his—even did they not otherwise arise-to secure St. John's, restore it, enrich it with the finest books in many languages, and thus affording him a place for retirement, country change, and study, leave her mistress of the old place, with power to aid him, by gathering together out of books of many kinds, those facts and sequences of human action and natural laws from which alone the generalizations worthy the name of history can be drawn.

"It will; because for years I have nightly prayed for God's tender mercy to me in the life to come: that, even as I have loved you with the deepest human love-even as I have worshipped your high intellect and lofty power-even as I reverence your singleness of heart, your rectitude, and truth-even as for years I have watched and wondered at what you had done for truth, ultimately, through those you have taught and trained so do I pray that, side by side with you on some nobler scene, we may have companionship. For this I shall ever pray unto the end; and, trusting in the perfect goodness of Almighty God, find rest and peace." Thus, even as she stood on the desolate "Amen! Amen!" she said, "so pray I and unlit hearth, she could but feel that likewise!" some triumph and some joy was hers.

Presently little Tib came home, with much | good offices of a certain Oxford dignitary, to tell her mistress of her aunt's kindness, who, hearing to what low estate Catherine and what Joe had said; and her mistress, in Cranbrook had come, had thus repaired much turn, had much to say about the goose and evil he had caused long years before. pudding.

On this Christmas morning she sits at When Tib was gone to bed, the fire bright, breakfast in one of the charming old parthe lamp lighted, Catherine sat down to look lors of St. John's, now renovated and clothed at Oliver's book; and so she read on and all round with the library Mr. Farquhar beon till the deepest peace was hers. queathed in his will. A little boy sits on So the night closed upon the old School either side of Catherine, and Oliver is oppoHouse of St. John's.

site. The fire burns bright; the sun steals in; the ivy wreathes green about the window.

Little Tib comes bursting in with a handful of letters, and her face is very radiant, for her Joe, and his mother and brothers, and her old aunt, and Kit, the old gardener, are to dine in the kitchen to-day.

A year has gone by, and the old hollies about St. John's are again thick set with ruddy berries. Catherine's affairs are now settled; she has bought St. John's, its wood and meadows, orchard and gardens. With the residue of her little money, and what she has for the teaching and guardianship of Sir Richard Sutton's little sons, she is inde-lined room is a charming one, and there is pendent: for the affairs respecting the school were more easily settled by reason of the

The Literature of American Aboriginal Languages. By Herman Ludewig. With additions and Corrections by Professor Wm. W. Turner. Edited by Nicholas Trübner. London: Trübner and Co. 1858.

THIS is the first instalment of a work which will be of the greatest value to philologists; being a compendium of the aboriginal languages of the American continent, and a digest of all the known literature bearing upon those languages. Thus, if a student wishes to become acquainted with the Haiti language, he finds, upon reference under that head, that the aboriginal inhabitants of the island of St. Domingo are extinct, and that in certain works, referred to at length, words, vocabularies, grammars, and grammatical notices of the Haitian language will be found. The most astonishing circumstance connected with this book is the number of languages referred to. Those not previously informed upon the subject would scarcely suspect the existence of so many languages in the whole world as are here proved to have existed in America alone. Many of these languages are of course extinct; but traces of them are to be found in the writings of the early missionaries, who are ever the pioneers, not only of commerce, but of philology.

The group thus gathered in the old book

peace in the long-tried heart of the mistress of St. John's.

glad to know that this labor of love has fallen into such able hands as those of Professor Turner and Mr. Trübner. Professor Turner's additions are distinguished by being placed within brackets, and by the addition of his initials; but they do not comprehend any very large portion of the work. Mr. Trübner's hand has been engaged passim, and in his preface he lays claim to "about one-sixth of the whole." In conclusion, we have no doubt that the encouragement with which this portion of the work will be received by scholars will be such as to inspire Mr. Trübner with sufficient confidence to persevere in his arduous but most honorable task.-Critic.

DEATH OF A SCHOLAR-CURIOUS WILL. We learn from an interesting communication in the Portsmouth (N. H.) Journal, that George Jaffrey. Esq., of that city, died there, at the age of 5. He had been librarian of the Portsmouth Athenæum for 33 years. He was a profound scholar, having devoted his life to books, the will of his great uncle forbidding him to follow any other profession than that of a gentleman, and compelling him also to make Portsmouth his permanent residence. His great uncle in question was a graduate of Harvard In apportioning the degrees of credit due to College in the year 1736; was an original purthe three gentlemen who have contributed to chaser of Mason's patent; a clerk to the prothis recondite work, it should be observed that prietors; was one of His Majesty's Council; it is based upon the labors of Dr. Hermann E. and was a man of great wealth and conseLudewig, a philologist and a jurist of great ac- quence. He died at the age of 86 years, in the quirements, and well known in Germany and year 1802. In his will he bequeathed all his the United States. Dr. Ludewig emigrated to real and personal estate to his grand nephew America in 1844, and from that time up to his and namesake, Geoege Jaffrey Jeffries, then death, in December, 1856, he bestowed great only thirteen years of age. The inheritance attention to the study of American linguistics. was on these conditions: that he should drop Dr. Ludewig's death has rendered it necessary the name of Jeffries, become a permanent resifor others to step in and complete the work dent in Portsmouth, and never follow any prowhich he so hopefully commenced; and we are fession except that of being a gentleman.

From The Literary Gazette.

Constable and Co.

DUGALD STEWART was the most conspicuous of that band of distinguished teachers who, at the close of the last century, gained for the northern capital the title of "the modern Athens." During the twenty-five years that he held the chair of Moral and Political Philosophy, the University of Edinburgh was at the zenith of its fame. In physical science it had long before become celebrated under such men as the first and second Monro, James and David Gregory, the mathematicians, and Maclaurin, the first astronomer who gave public prelections on the Newtonian discoveries. It was reserved

the great metaphysician were in the hands of The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, his son, Colonel Matthew Stewart, who had Esq., F.R.S. Edited by Sir William prepared a biographical memoir; but the Hamilton, Bart. Vol. X. With a Memoir of Dugald Stewart, by John Veitch, M.A. greater part of Mr. Stewart's correspondence and his private journals were burned by this gentleman, under the influence of an unfortunate mental hallucination, the result of a sunstroke received in India. The few letters and other biographical materials that could be subsequently collected were put into the hands of the late Sir William Hamilton. He had completed the revision of all Stewart's published writings, the last of which, the memoirs of Adam Smith, Robertson, and Reid, are included in his tenth volume of the collected edition of his works. But again there was to be disappointments to the promised memoir. A few fragmentary notes were all that could be transferred by the publishers, on the death of Sir William Hamfor Dugald Stewart to raise Edinburgh to anilton, to Mr. Veitch, one of his most accomequal reputation as a school of ethical and political philosophy. From the class room of Stewart went forth many men whose names were associated, during the first half of this century, with the progress of opinion,

and not a few of those who have taken the

lead in practical statesmanship. Among those who yet appear in public affairs it is sufficient to mention Lord Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston, Lord Brougham, and Lord John Russell. Of other pupils distinguished in various walks of life a few survive, such as Sir David Brewster, Lord Dundonald, and Lord Murray, but the greater number-Jeffrey, Horner, Cockburn, Birkbeck, Leyden have passed away.

plished pupils, and for some years his assistant reader in the University. This gentleman has performed his task creditably; but we must regret the absence of an expositor, trained, like Sir William Hamilton, in a system of philosophy which few would now-adays bear the pains of studying in the ori ginal.

Dugald Stewart was born within the walls of that University with the history of which his name is associated. His father, Dr. Matthew Stewart, was Professor of Mathematics, and in the house attached to the professorship in the old College buildings his son was born in 1753. His early education he received at the High School of Edinburgh, two of the Although it is now thirty years since six years under the tuition of Dr. Adam. Stewart's death, and nearly fifty years since In 1765 he entered the University, where he he resigned his professonial chair, the history studied till 1769. To the teaching of James of his career has remained hitherto a vague Russell in Natural Philosophy, John Steventraditon. In the Memoirs of Francis Horson in Logic, and Adam Ferguson, the hisner, and of Henry Cockburn, there are inci-torian of the Roman Republic, and Professor dental notices of his life and labors, but the of Moral Philosophy, Dugald Stewart owed preparation of a formal memoir has been the formation of his philosophical character. prevented by a series of untoward circumIn 1771 he went to the University of Glasstances. It was long expected that Lord Jeffrey would have been his biographer; and 80w, where he enjoyed the privilege of the prelections of Dr. Thomas Reid, the founder a brilliant book he would have made on a of "the Scottish school" of mental science. theme combining the political with the literary and philosophical history of Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth and the early part of the present century. From various causes Jeffrey did not execute the design. The materials for a detailed life of

"Reid's teaching was well fitted to arrest awaking to a life of reflection, and to a sense and influence an ingenuous mind that was of the philosophical need of the times Throughout its entire course, it was a polemic against Locke, Berkeley, and Hume-th

"The period of attendance on the prelections of Stewart remained sacred in the mind

three philosophers with whose writings he on his pupils is thus genially described by was certainly best acquainted. His lectures, the biographer: clear and simple, without technicality, nice refinement, formal distinctions, or systematic perfection, inculcated doctrines which were the fresh products of his own vigorous reflection. Those doctrines he aimed at exhibiting merely as legitimate grounds of assurance in regard to realities which the philosophy he combated cast beyond the pale of knowledge

and existence.

of many a pupil, long after the quiet of the of the world, as a time of elevated converse University had been exchanged for the bustle with great themes, and the source of a refining and ennobling influence then first amalgamated with the current of life. The man

"No pupil ever caught the spirit of a mas-the purity and elevation of his personal ter more fully, or more intelligently appreciated his method of philosophical inquiry. During a long life consecrated to reflection, Stewart nourished that spirit in Scotland, and continued the application of the same method to speculative science; and won by his accomplishments as a teacher and writer, a wider interest and fuller acceptance for philosophical doctrines than they had before experienced in Britain."

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character-the enlarged, liberal, and tolerant spirit which he carried into speculation—his unwavering confidence in the steady progress of humanity towards a fuller realization of truth and virtue-his chastened eloquence and ample stores of illustrative imagery and classical reference-the thorough mastery he showed of his powers of intellect and imagination, springing from assiduous culture grace of speech and manner-the repose and dignity of his academic demeanor, not unrelieved by a vein of quiet and kindly humor-long remained in the memory of numerous pupils, scattered abroad over many lands, whom his impressive teaching first awoke to a full sense of the duty and the and nobler impulses he called forth and anidignity of man, and whose higher feelings mated. In the case, indeed, of the finer minds among his pupils who most thoroughly imbibed their master's spirit,. and profited most fully by his teaching, the lapse of time, as they gradually receded in the journey of life, from the era of their attendance on the feeling of sacrednesss with which they Stewart's prelections, served but to enhance regarded the pure spring whence, in early youth, they had drawn supplies for the needs of their opening moral and intellectual life."

In 1772, when only in his nineteenth year, he was called upon by his father, whose health was declining, to take charge of the mathematical classes in the University of Edinburgh. After acting three years as his father's substitute, he was elected joint-professor in 1775. In 1778, on Adam Ferguson being appointed Secretary to the British Commissioners sent to America to attempt a settlement of the disputes with that country, Stewart was invited to teach the Moral Philosophy class in the professor's absence. This task he fulfilled with high credit, continuing at the same time his mathematical lectures. On the resignation of Adam Ferguson in 1785, Stewart was transferred to the chair of Moral Philosophy, which he held till 1810. The subjects taught in this class embraced psychology and metaphysics, natural theology, ethics proper, the theory of taste, or æsthetics, as the modern term is, politics, or the theory of government, and the science of political economy, to which the great work of Adam Smith had attracted new attention. Of the manner of treating these varied subjects Mr. Veitch gives an animated description, with notices of the personal characteristics of Stewart as a lecturer and teacher, as handed down by the traditions of his pupils. "Dugald Stewart," says Lord Cockburn, " was one of the great-public prelections on political economy had est of didactic orators. Had he lived in ancient times, his memory would have descended to us as that of one of the finest of the old eloquent sages." The influence he exercised

More space would be necessary than we can spare for entering on any critical review of the philosophical or political questions which occupied a prominent place in Stewart's lectures. It was not by originality of thought so much as by felicity of statement that his teaching was characterized, and his chief influence was exerted in exciting a wide interest in subjects which till then had only engaged the notice of speculative students. For example, the published "Lectures on Political Economy" show no advance beyond the "Wealth of Nations" in regard to positive doctrines. But it was the first time that

been given in this country, and the discussion of such subjects from an academic chair caused no little sensation at the time. The class was commenced in 1800, and was kept

whose names have never been heard of before. The name of Rabot de St. Etienne is at present as well known in France as that of Fox in England."

up till shortly before Mr. Stewart's resigna- mist), besides a variety from the provinces, tion of the Moral Philosophy chair in 1810. From that time to his death in 1828 he lived in retirement, devoting himself to the tranquil pursuits of literature and philosophy. His last work, the "Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers," was given to the world

only a few weeks before his death.

The greater part of Mr. Stewart's correspondence, as we have already mentioned, was destroyed by his son. A few letters have been preserved, most of them addressed to Mr. Alison, author of the "Essays on Taste," and father of Sir Archibald Alison, the historian. In 1788 Stewart accompanied the Earl of Lauderdale in his mission to Paris, and witnessed some of the memorable scenes of the early days of the French Revolution. He was present at many of the sittings of the States General at Versailles, and heard the opening debate on the mode of deliberation, whether it should be par tete ou par ordre. A few days after he writes to his

friend Alison :

On his way to Paris he heard one of Sheridan's celebrated speeches at the trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall. His criticism is curious:

"MY DEAR ARCHY,-I heard Sheridan the two first days, and was disappointed. He has quickness and wit, and something that passes with his hearers in Westminster Hall for eloquence; but he neither is, nor ever will be, a great speaker. The cry is at present so much in his favor that every criticism, either on his matter or manner, is heard with contempt; but when the speech is published, I will venture to say that the delusion will be at an end. Of the business part of the speech I do not pretend to judge (although, I am certain, that Fox would have stated the argument with infinitely greater perspicuity and force); but as to his eloquence, "The noblesse and the clergy did not meet I really do not think it much better than his on Monday or Tuesday, as Sunday was Pente- father's flourishes in his rhetorical lectures, cost, and the two following days jours de and it is upon this that the merit of the fete, but the Tiers Etat continued their de- speech is principally rested by his admirers. liberations, without however doing any thing Indeed, whatever the newspaper writers may of much consequence. Of late they have choose to say upon the subject, you may be admitted strangers into the gallery, which assured from me, that excepting with a very they are always to do for the future, and I few people in the House, neither his reasonaccordingly went to Versailles the day before ing, nor his detail of facts commanded the yesterday to hear one of their debates. The attention; and the only thing that intersubject (which I have not time to explain to ested the whole assembly was a set of comyou at present) was not very interesting, but posed declamations, which he had scattered on the whole I was very well pleased with through the speech at proper distances from what I heard. The Comte de Mirabeau each other, and which differed so remarkaspoke repeatedly, along with several others, bly from the other parts of it, both in point who I think want nothing but practice to of expression (for the language was as artimake them very good debaters. Many of ficial as that of Gibbon), and in the manner the members have already laid aside the in which they were pronounced, that I am costume prescribed to them, and appeared perfectly astonished that it should have rewith colored clothes and with swords. One ceived so very high applause from many peoman, who I presume has seen our House of ple who should know better. But I must Commons, was dressed in boots and buckskin delay a more particular account of him till I breeches. They have adopted all our Par- see you. I should be sorry to talk in this liamentary expressions, to a degree which is way in public, for it would be considered as somewhat ludicrous. Faire une motion; mere petulance and affectation; but I can Proposer un amendement, &c.; L'honorable assure you his eloquence hardly once touched membre qui vient de parler, &c., with a great me, and that I could not see the affected rapmany others. In speaking of themselves tures of the people who were sitting near too, they always call themselves Les Com- me without some degree of indignation. I munes, and not Tiers Etat. The principal understand he made a still greater display speakers who have hitherto distinguished the last day; but I hardly feel any regret at themselves are, M. Rabot de St. Etienne having missed the opportunity of hearing it, (the Protestant clergyman whom I formerly for I am sure, if I know the full extent of mentioned, and who has decidedly at present any man's powers in the way of eloquence, it the principal lead in the Assembly), M. de is Sheriden's. He is not once to be comVolney (the traveller), M. Target (a very pared either to Fox, Pitt, or Burke. Ineminent lawyer, and a member of the French deed, I am assured, that nothing has been Academy,) the Comte de Mirabeau, the heard half so pathetic and sublime Chevalier Dupont [de Nemours] (the econo

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