Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature

WHEN the Count and Countess of Mon-

talembert were in England in 1839-when

she was in the bloom of her beauty and

he in the fulness of his fame-they break-

fasted one morning with Rogers, who, on

their leaving the room, turned to one of

the remaining guests and said, 'I envy

that young man, not for his youth, nor for

his fame, nor even for his handsome wife,

but for his faith. He seems to believe in

something, and that makes a man really

happy.' This remark was addressed to

Rio, the author of Christian Art,' and the

conversation having just before turned on

a fine specimen of the pre-Raphaelite

school deeply imbued with the religious

feeling, there can be no doubt as to the

description of faith which struck Rogers.

It was a faint reflection of that deep im-

Old Series Com-

Iplete in 63 vols.

pulsive passionate feeling that animated

Montalembert through life: faith, uncom-

promising, unhesitating faith in Christiani-

ty as embodied in the Church, the Holy

Catholic Church, which sat enthroned on

the seven hills and (as he thought) was as-

serting no more than a rightful claim in

eternally parodying the language of Rien-

zi, when, unsheathing his maiden sword,

he thrice brandished it to the three parts of

the world, and thrice repeated the extrava-

gant declaration, ' And this, too, is mine.'

Montalembert believed equally and im-

plicitly in her divine origin and her bene-

ficial influences, in her purity, vitality, dura-

bility, and impeccability. She was the

same to him in her triumphs and her trials,

in her victories and her defeats, in the

noonday splendor and the lurid eclipses

of her sun. Like the cavalier who was

ready to do homage to the crown hanging

upon a bush, his reverence for the tiara.

was in no respect diminished by its fall-

ing on an unworthy head-by finding

amongst the successors of St. Peter a Far-

Macmillan's Magazine..

Cornhill Magazine..

Popular Science Review.

Professor Agassiz: a Correction, 126-The Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 124-Peat for Fuel, 124-Carbolic
Acid for Preserving Bodies, 125-Baron Liebig on Beef-Tea, 125-The Process of Embalming, 125-Interesting to
Antiquarians, 126-A New Group of Fossil Birds, 126-The Pointed Ear in Man, 126-A Substitute for Coal, 126-
Some Scientific Novelties, 252-Utilizing "Waste Coal," 252-The Rainfall in Switzerland, 252-A New Testing
Machine, 253-A New Kind of Magnet, 253-A Real Safety-Lamp," 253-An Electro-Static Unit of Measure-
ment, 253-Size of the Human Head, 253-Preservation of Articles of Food, 254-Professor Marsh's Discovery, 254
-A New Group of Fossil Birds, 254-Prevention of Waste in Manufacture, 254-New Basis for Artificial Teeth, 254
-American Preparations for the Approaching Transit of Venus, 377-Change in English Arrangements for Ob-
serving the Transit, 378-Suspended Animation, 378-Poisonous Inoculation with Dead Blood, 378-Experiments
on a Guillotined Subject, 378-The Immense Coal-Area of the United States, 379-Relics of a Stone-Age Home-
stead, 379-Habits of Ants Displaying Intelligence, 379-Are Hot-Air Stoves Injurious to Health? 379-The Lemurs
not Related to Apes, 380-Fungi in the Ear, 380-Fish and Tea as Food, 509-Researches on the Digestion of Starch,
509-Light a Curative Agent, 509-Antique Vases, 509-Photographing the Transit of Venus, 510-American Ex-
plorations in Palestine, 510-Vegetable Physiology, 510-Various Disinfectants, 510-Whom Scientific Men Repre-
sent, 634-Fire and Building Stones, 634-Gigantic Fossil Bird, 634-The Auroras, 634-Sewage Contamination, 635
Sudden Change in the Color of Hair, 634-New Photometer, 635-Alcohol in Bread, 635-Proper Combinations in

Soaps, 635-Perambulators for Infants, 636-The Growth of Science, 764-New Discoveries at Pompeii, 764-An

American Fossil Skull, 765-Functions of Special Parts of the Brain, 765-The Heart and the Circulation of the

Blood, 765-Effects of Disease on the Blood, 765-New Motor for Sewing-Machines, etc., 765-Functions of the

Brain, 766.

Sneezing, 127-The Influence of Flowers on Health, 127-General Lee as a Commander, 128-Chinese Ladies

128-The Koo-To0, 255-Power of Talking, 255-Class Distinctions, 256-The Art of Quarrelling, 256-Memory

256-Dr. Johnson, 380-Muscular Strength of Insects, 381-Four Portraits, 382-A Pet Snake, 382-Silence as an

American Trait, 383-War the Normal Condition of the World, 383-An Epitaph, 384-Brotherly", Relations,

384-Veiled, 384-Love's Gifts, 384-Marriage in Indian Life, 510-Scotch Verdict of Not Proven," 511-The

Reason Why, 511-Method of Electing the Pope, 512-Bonaparte's Marriage, 512-War, 512-How Indians were

Created, 636-Chinese Gamblers, 636-Captured Gods, 637-Death of the Pope, 637-Pencillings, 638-Louis XIV.,

638-Railway Travelling in Algiers, 633-Ocean Springs, 639-The Arctic Regions, 639-Submarine Landscapes,

639-African Ladies' Amusements, 639-Smoking in Persia, 640-Eating Blood, 640-The Gospel according to Dr.

Strauss, 640-Description of Vesuvius, 766-The Every-Day Fallacies of Gamblers, 767-Benjamin West, 767-The

Cobbler and the Monkey, 768-Love's Waking, 768-Honolulu, 768.

WEATHER Knowledge, RECENT PROGRESS IN.....

.Fortnightly Review.

WEATHER, THE, AND THE SUN. By Richard A. Proctor, F.R.S.St. Paul's.......

WORDSWORTH. By Sir John Duke Coleridge....
WHITTIER, JOHN G. By the Editor

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WHEN the Count and Countess of Mon-

talembert were in England in 1839-when

she was in the bloom of her beauty and

he in the fulness of his fame-they break-

fasted one morning with Rogers, who, on

their leaving the room, turned to one of

the remaining guests and said, 'I envy

that young man, not for his youth, nor for

his fame, nor even for his handsome wife,

but for his faith. He seems to believe in

something, and that makes a man really

happy.' This remark was addressed to

Rio, the author of 'Christian Art,' and the

conversation having just before turned on

a fine specimen of the pre-Raphaelite

school deeply imbued with the religious

feeling, there can be no doubt as to the

description of faith which struck Rogers.

It was a faint reflection of that deep im-

Memoir of Count de Montalembert, Peer of

France, Deputy for the Department of Doubs. A

Chapter of Recent French History. By Mrs. Oli-

phant, Author of 'The Life of Edward Irving,'

S. Francis of Assisi,' &c. In 2 volumes. Edin-

burgh and London, 1872.

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Old Series Com-

plete in 63 vols.

pulsive passionate feeling that animated

Montalembert through life: faith, uncom-

promising, unhesitating faith in Christiani-

ty as embodied in the Church, the Holy

Catholic Church, which sat enthroned on

the seven hills and (as he thought) was as-

serting no more than a rightful claim in

eternally parodying the language of Rien-

zi, when, unsheathing his maiden sword,

he thrice brandished it to the three parts of

the world, and thrice repeated the extrava-

gant declaration, And this, too, is mine.'

Montalembert believed equally and im-

plicitly in her divine origin and her bene-

ficial influences, in her purity, vitality, dura-

bility, and impeccability. She was the

same to him in her triumphs and her trials,

in her victories and her defeats, in the

noonday splendor and the lurid eclipses

of her sun. Like the cavalier who was

ready to do homage to the crown hanging

upon a bush, his reverence for the tiara

was in no respect diminished by its fall-

ing on an unworthy head-by finding

amongst the successors of St. Peter a Far-

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Cornhill Magazine..

Popular Science Review.

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Professor Agassiz: a Correction, 126-The Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 124-Peat for Fuel, 124-Carbolic

Acid for Preserving Bodies, 125-Baron Liebig on Beef-Tea, 125-The Process of Embalming, 125-Interesting to

Antiquarians, 126-A New Group of Fossil Birds, 126-The Pointed Ear in Man, 126-A Substitute for Coal, 126-

Some Scientific Novelties, 252-Utilizing "Waste Coal," 252-The Rainfall in Switzerland, 252-A New Testing

Machine, 253-A New Kind of Magnet, 253-A Real Safety-Lamp," 253-An Electro-Static Unit of Measure-

ment, 253-Size of the Human Head, 253-Preservation of Articles of Food, 254-Professor Marsh's Discovery, 254

-A New Group of Fossil Birds, 254-Prevention of Waste in Manufacture, 254-New Basis for Artificial Teeth, 254

-American Preparations for the Approaching Transit of Venus, 377-Change in English Arrangements for Ob-
serving the Transit, 378-Suspended Animation, 378-Poisonous Inoculation with Dead Blood, 378-Experiments
on a Guillotined Subject, 378-The Immense Coal-Area of the United States, 379-Relics of a Stone-Age Home-
stead, 379-Habits of Ants Displaying Intelligence, 379-Are Hot-Air Stoves Injurious to Health? 379-The Lemurs
not Related to Apes, 380-Fungi in the Ear, 380-Fish and Tea as Food, 509-Researches on the Digestion of Starch,
509-Light a Curative Agent, 509-Antique Vases, 509-Photographing the Transit of Venus, 510-American Ex-
plorations in Palestine, 510-Vegetable Physiology, 510-Various Disinfectants, 510-Whom Scientific Men Repre-
sent, 634-Fire and Building Stones, 634-Gigantic Fossil Bird, 634-The Auroras, 634-Sewage Contamination, 635
Sudden Change in the Color of Hair, 634-New Photometer, 635-Alcohol in Bread, 635-Proper Combinations in

Soaps, 635-Perambulators for Infants, 636-The Growth of Science, 764-New Discoveries at Pompeii, 764-An

American Fossil Skull, 765-Functions of Special Parts of the Brain, 765-The Heart and the Circulation of the

Blood, 765-Effects of Disease on the Blood, 765-New Motor for Sewing-Machines, etc., 765-Functions of the

Brain, 766.