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engagement to the deformeds and sensitive Philipo Wakem, entered into from feelings that are move kindly and grateful than intense, are finely delineated.Tom's rude and almost in solent interferende is equally well toldIt is when we come to the third volume, which is intended to portray thed effect som Maggie of an irresistibles and yet unhappy and unworthy past sion, her conflict with it, the moral problems to which bit leads, and her ultimate victory over it, that we seem to lose sight at once of the artistic power of the author, and of thei delicate moral discrimination which is so conspicuous in Alam Bedetailqmos odt tiw ole botoomoo vlozolo ei yrota ort -olAndolet hast say at once that we do not believe that this tale adopts/or embodies any questionable moral principle. Ther charge which we bring against bit is not that of asserting false principles, or falling to assert true ones The painful impresi sion produced is due entirely to the interpolation sinto the picture of a noble though not faultless character of an episode so inconsistent with its general tenor, as to force on us the cond viction that the author does not believe any amount of native fidelity and delicacy of character powerful enough to protecti hers heroine against the overmastering fascination of what she calls the law of attraction" She evidently estimates alla the natural safeguards which position, duty, and feeling in a re fined and delicate mature can impose as utterly inadequate to defend her against the approaches of physical passionsShe erot thrones physiological law so far above both affections and con science in point of strength, that she represents Maggie as driftu ing helplessly intonacvortex of passion, and rescued at last only" by the last spasmodic effort of a neatly overpowered willgal ni 10 Maggie is staying with her cousin Lucy, to whom she is tenderly attached Her dousin is known to be all but engaged t to Mr. Stephen Guest while she herself is pledged at heart to Philip Wakem. But the idea, if it can be so dalled, of this un pleasant part of the book is, that a powerful physique, and the self-possessed nature which rarely goes with a diseased or delicate physique, is an essential to command the full passion of Maggie's heart, which Mr. Stephen Guest strives for and obtains The man is a pinchbeck hero,-hot of sterling metal at all su indeed, the sketch of him is poor, and does not even realise him strongly toiduri hinds.But the grave fault of the episode is it the assumption that the ingrained affectionateness and fidelity of Maggie's nature should be nooiprotection against the approaches of her quite unmotived passion for Lucy's overlobul must be remembered that, whatever were the defects of the social influences under which she is represented as having been edus cated, an intense regard for the claims of kindred and thiếTMa

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claims of justice are depicted as deeply rooted in all her relations. This feeling is painted as reproduced in full force both in brother and sister; and yet it never even occurs to the author that these deeply implanted principles would have exercised so powerful a latent effect as to counteract effectually any "elective affinities" between her and Mr. Guest. The whole of this portion of the book is a kind of enthusiastic homage to physiological law, and seems to us as untrue to nature as it is unpleasant and indelicate. The light of a character in itself transparently beautiful is here almost extinguished in very unfragrant fumes of physiological smoke.

When we have said this, we have exhausted our moral protest. It seems to us entirely unjust to represent the final struggle as otherwise than decisive as well as noble. Exception has been taken to the following passage, as if it involved any hesitation as to the alternative between passion and duty; 't lin Las pho -The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it: the question, whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases. The casuists have become a by-word of reproach; but their perverted spirit of minute discrimination was the shadow of a truth to which eyes and hearts are too often fatally sealed: the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they are checked and enlightened by a perpetual reference to the special circumstances that mark the individual lot." Den: 1169 35 od 1. to gordurs, oil P

The clear meaning of the author is,-and it is not only true, but evidently a result of deep and thoughtful moral sentiment, --not of course that passion can or ought ever to put in a claim above duty, but that the true course of duty will change from time to time if passion be indulged, so that a return to what would once have been the right course will often be the wrong course now.. In other words, though it is never too late to clear any life of moral weakness or sin, it is often too late to clear it of the consequences of former moral weakness or sin; and the time will come when to attempt to ignore the past, and act as though the problem of duty were unchanged by what it has brought, will be itself the most lamentable symptom of a conscience weakened by transgression. For our own part, we hold that if once, without violence to all the impressions produced by the earlier part of the book, we could imagine Maggie in the situation towards Mr. Stephen Guest into which the author has driven her, there is the most perfect delicacy and truthfulness displayed in the description of her conflict and her

victory. y! What we do cordially protest against, as a very dark blot on a fine picture, is the virtual assumption that the most deeply-rooted habits of thought and feeling in the finest natures are far too weak to paralyse the force of this assumed physiological omnipotence. There seem to us to be false and degrading assumptions in the delineation of the temptation, but the truest moral insight in the picture of the final conflict and the i ultimate victory.

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We have now indicated, imperfectly enough, the leading characteristics of the genius, whose broad and humorous sketches of English life, and profound insight into the commonest parts of the commonest natures, are likely, we trust, often to rivet our admiration afresh. We will not believe that the flavour of bitterness, the tendency to magnify the dreariness and dullness of human nature, t to caricature the worldliness of the world, and all the blinding dust of life, the disposition to exagge rate the relative influence of the lowest elements in our moral constitution, which appear in The Mill on the Floss, are any indication that one of the most genial and sunny, as well as one of the most powerful and noble, of modern English authors is losing any part of her delicate apprehension of the unfailing springs of beauty and truth. She is not in any danger of falling into that unreal ideality which ignores the minute and frail and earthly side of human nature. But there is quite as great a danger of unreality in the opposite direction, of that unreality which is so intent on the skin and the wrinkles and the earthly fibres, that it loses all trace of the inextinguishable fountains of life beneath. The author of Adam Bede can scarcely fall into unreality such as this! godt ody to gaianou teolo od 1 Jasmit9- 1616 hittignodt ben pob to thor e zhamobi za art mielo e di ang of 1979 idque to mes noizzeq telt szos to tom mort med li# vtub to 9-mon sunt out selt and,7mb 976! ted of auctor ptedt of boulubai od potez, 'ti oni, of quor of oud ART XLMR, GLADSTONE,and son bl Teplo et stel,otori ti doroterem Tulto, al Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Finance of the b.G Year and the Treaty of Commerce with France. Delivered in the Dr House of Commons, on Friday, February 10, 1800. Corrected by orom rub to goldong sult is godt op We believe that Quarterly essayists have a peculiar mission in relation to the characters of public men. We believe it is their duty to be personal. This idea may seem ridiculous to some of our readers; but let us consider the circumstances carefully. We allow that personality abounds already, that the names of public men are for ever on our lips, that we never take up a newspaper without seeing them. But this incessant personality

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is wholly fragmentary it is composed of chance criticismoons special traits, oft fugitive remarks on temporary measures, of casual praise and casual blame. We can expect little else from what is written in haste, or is spoken without limitation Publie men must bear this criticism as they can. Those whose numes are perpetually in men's mouths must not be pained if singular things are sometimes said of themo Still some deliberate truth should be spoken of our statesmen, and if Quarterly essayists do not speak it, who will? We fear it will remain unspoken.ati od Mr. Gladstone ista problem, and it is very remarkable that he should be a problem. We have had more than ordinary means for judging of him. He has been in public life for seven-and twenty years; he has filled some of the most conspicuous offices in the Statelji he has been a distinguished member of the Tory party he is a distinguished member of the Liberal party he has brought forward many measures; he has passed many years in independent Opposition, which is unquestionably the place most favourable to the display of personal peculiarities in Paril liament; he is the greatest orator in the House of Common's he never allows a single important topic to pass by without telling us what he thinks of it and yet, with all these data, we are all of us an doubt about him. What he will do, and what he will think still more, why he will do it, and why he will think it, are quæstiones vexate at every political conjuncture. At the very last ministerial crisis; when the Government of Lord Derby was on the verge of extinction, when every voice on Lord John's resolution was of critical importance, no one knew till nearly the last hour low Mr. Gladstone would vote; and in the end he voted against his present colleagues.The House of Commons gossips are generally wrong about him. Nor is the uncertainty confined to parliamentary divisions; it extends to his whole career. Whol can calculate his future course? Who can tell whether her will be the greatest orator of a great ad ministration; whether he will rule the House of Commons whether he will be, as his gifts at first sight mark him out to be, our greatest statesman? or whether, below the gangway, he will utter unintelligible discourses; will aid in destroying many ministries and share in none; will pour forth during many hopeless years a bitter, a splendid, and a vituperative eloquence? vizne on oval goit Perojmi Isushi Ist

We do not profess that we can solve all the difficulties that! are suggested even by the superficial consideration of a cha racter so exceptional. We do not aspire to be prophets. Mr. Gladstone's destiny perplexes us--perhaps as much as it per plexes our readers. But we think that we can explain much of his past career; that many of his peculiarities are not so un

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accountable as they seem; that a careful study will showusi the origin of most of them that we may hope to indicate some of the material circumstances and conditions on which this future course depends, though we should not be so boldi as to venture to foretell it. o vodi en meisitiro aint rood temm 19m Teluguie ti bonicy od ton tem dom 'nom ni vllatoqroq 978 During the discussion on the Budget, an old Whig who did not approve of it, but who had to vote for it, muttered of its author, Ah, Oxford on the surface; but Liverpool belowb And there is truth in the observation, though not in the splenetic sense in which it was intended. Mr. Gladstone does! combine in at very curious way many of the characteristics) which we generally associate with the place of his education with many of those which we usually connect with the placei of his birth. Nolone can question the first part of they ob servation. No man has through life been more markedly and Oxford man than Mr. Gladstone His Church and State, publi lished after he had been several years in public life was inst stinct with the very spirit of the Oxford of that stime His! Homer, published the other day, bears nearly equal traces of the school in which he was educated. Even in his ordinaryt style there is antingen half theological, half classical, whichs recalls the studies of his youth, Many Oxford inen much object! to the opinions of their distinguished representative, but nonet of them would deny that he remarkably embodies the peculiar results of the peculiar teaching of the placeov o no es vor Ilit word one on metroqui levitiro to zaw пoitulozor z mol ni And yet he has something which his collegiate training never would have given him, which it is rather remarkable it! has not taken away from him. There is much to be said in fayour of the University of Oxford No one can deny to its very/great and very peculiar merits.But//certainly it is not! an exciting place, and its education [bperates as a marcotic rather than as a stimulant. Most of its students devote their lives to a single profession, and we may observe among them a kind of sacred torpidity. In many rural parsonages there are! men of very great cultivation, who are sedulous in their rour tine duties, who attend minutely to the ecclesiasticali state of the souls in their village, but who are perfectly devoid of gener ral intellectual interests. They have no anxiety to solve greats problems to busy themselves with the speculations of their age; to impress their peculiar theology for péculiar it is both ins its expression and its substance on the educated mind of their time Oxford, it has been said, disheartens a man early) At any rate, since Newmanism lost Father Newman,few indeed! of her acknowledged sons attain decided eminence in our deeper

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