eintallaitUtt, THE ANABAPTISTS. rsoat HISTOItt 'Or' THE 'REFOII - IN THE '.NETHERLANDS. ET ,, N., M. S. Truth ever hasits counterfeits. ' Ear nestnese- in. behalf of a good 'cause' Will alwarg ' . be'l accompanied, with its carica ture; "finaticism. When • the tyranny of error:is broken up, there'tt!re never want ing. thbse who rush' to' the extremes of license. Ileeide,, eyiry Reformation eeems to, go ~ a ,Deformation. Many false Messiahs apPeared about the time of Christ And primitive Christianity must neediViiißtggle with immoral and wild eiertierris' seeking to attach them selves to it. Paul was compelled to warn bI4I- 1 1fearers and converthi inot to use their evangelical liberty 4 ' for an oc= 'melon to the flesh;" and' John, in his lettersi to the seven churches', rebukes the Nicolaitans, those that held' the doc trine of Balsam'and the adherents of the false prophetess, Jezebel,— as errc•rists who have .sounded the ,, very depths of Satan, While, calling themselves Chris tians and seeking to identify themselves with the ,early' Church:; So,;+we . .! cannot wonder,that,,by the side of a' movement so purgoo ,Scriptural, so honestly aimed at the spiritual elevation . of .men. ' as the Reformation', should arise a phenomenon so 4 hat.efal .arAlsodacandalons. as .Ana--' baptism. And the false reformation has its ,great,use..., .I.t, ; helps us to' :recognize the trim, ly.,the, side of. Gods work goes man's .work. They who ;.would &utile hand ,of God , in the Lutheran Reformation, need only to lie pointed , to the „e.Teesses, of the Anabaptists, to learn what sort of work, man, at ,the prompt-, ing'of the deril,'WOuld Make of, such, a. movement. In no . way, could it have. been Made, more..clearly .to appear that there is a, wide gulf, bet,ween a Iteforma ton, Vaeed on the word. of God and a fan,atie,a l .l exeitetnent,,than In this con- , treat. InAike,,little town of Zwickau,- on the western borders of Saxony, south of Leipzig, some ignorant but strong-mind ed men fell into the delusion of imagin ing themselves divinely inspired tiroph ets, sent to complete the Reformation, as they said, so feebly sketched by Luther. They .rejected the ,Scriptures as unnecegeary for 'those who were en lightened by immediate revelation. They considired themielyes sole .I ju)ges of what was right: and *icing. Raving cast off the yoke of Rornanism, they it wishe at the same _ time to throw, off ever:f itiiiraiot and ,to, follow their own individual inclinatiops. They prophe sied the eaAY 4p.(1 Vicilent!oilirtlitow of the present state of things. They went through the,. town. and country crying, Woel ;Woe the day of the Lord draweth nigh." They taught that infant baptism was valueless, and required all men tO,, map , and receive from their bands the true baptism, as a sign of their introduction to the true Church of God. From Zwickau these fanatics came to the home -of; Luther in But Lu ther was , still a fugitive, safely concealed • in the' Castle' of Wartburg. And in his absence great mischief. was done by these violent men,, *any of his friends were led away by the con tagiOn of their enthusiasm. They en tered the Churches and carried away the images,.`broke them in pieces and burned them. ~,,Learning was decried as un necessary when ignorant men could be come, ,prophets.' The old professor, Carlstadt, advised, his pupils to return home to the spade and the plough, and the master at the boys' school at Wit tenberg, called to the assembled citizens from the window to come and,take away their children. Men's . minds became disturber.-ITie.itudentslt4Wittenberg 'University grew disorderly and finally dispersed., ~The Reformation seemed on the poin'toli the very place: of its origin. The friends of Rome on all sides gained, confidenee,, and exclaimed, " One slruggle more/one last 'struggle and all will be ours." Luther was not in the slightest de gree staggered by the news 'which reached him in 'his' retreat, that a new race ot.prOphets had arisen, who claimed the sublime privilege of direct commun ion with God.' . But. he feOls "that the time hags "come for his appearance at Wittenberg.,. J.rE, spite of the opposition of his prOteciteri. on the 3d of March, 1522, he bade adieu to the ancient towers and gloomy forestaof the Wartburg, and on the 7th of'kaich, amid general re joicing, he e e t ntered the scene of his earlier labors, and , engaged= iii the great task which had especially summoned him forth. It was a new and most serious undertakifig. ' Thq question to' e settled was, whether thq elements of fanaticism which had hegun to work in connection with the Reformation could be separated from it ; whether itt. could be Eihown to the work?) that a movement, 'like Protes tantisEn,Spr. the liberation of the human spirit from ages of religious tyranny, was capable. of .maintaining and establishing itself as something entirely pure and beneficent, essentially upon , the side of publisorder,and ; or whether it must be swallowed up by the , disor derly elements which came to the sur face at the swine time; Eidd.l3O'be proved to be Siibgianti'ally ill. no wise different from them. ; - Lutheloa lance ascended the pulpit and preached every day for a week. This bold and lion-like man, who has been called the third Elijah, had no ana themas for the disturbers of the peace THE "'AMERICA* - ' POS#It Eitiliiill ... 7ifitligt6.l l .:Tetoiliti i'; id, iY86,6:1 and the perverters of the doctrines , he had drawn 'from the Scriptures. In tender and noble language, first corn. mending, like Paul in his Epistles, what, he found worthy of praise among his people, he proceeds to argue, to admonish ,and to rebuke, with a plest sagacious mixture of indignation against error and of caution in dealing with, the. offenders. In eight sermons, it is said, he did , not allow one offensive word agt4nst the disturbers to escapo him. - Thit he con-, tittered. The false prophets lost' their adherents, the people returned to their quiet pursuits,- thb . tumultuous :tassa,ultg upon Romish- idolatry, ceased, .and Ana baptism no longer had l ocilio c i, Wittenberz. ~Two of titefkrOilets4ought ,an interview with Luther. In reply to their long , arguments, he simply declared that nothing' theY advanced 'Was 4kis tamed by the Seriftures, and alit 'the whole thing: was, a fable.. : The,prophets flew into a rage. Liather demanded a miracle. ' Another' one, more ortlni, 'and affecting at the, moment id insidred declared that he know,what was passing in Luther's •thoughts, and that he; Luther, was'beginning . to incline - to theif doc trine. " The Lord, rebuke thee, Satanl" was Luther's deliberatei.and calm reply.. At, this' they raged like 'irkadnien, and cried out " The Spirit . ; the `Spirit." ther r "uttered some, expressions of, extreme contempt ,for titeir spirit, and the ~prot phets departed foaming- with anger. Thus, in a campaigrr - Of a week, this most dangerous enemy , OP Alie kdforilaki tion and of Christian . 9iViliiation; Was routed, and driven ;from:the, was in the. middle of.Marth, 1-5211 - But, though - driven' t: from F Witten; berg, theile false teachers' , / wOZ . by ;no meanscrobbed of the power or ,disposition. to clo mischief. , They,.; and :others, of opinions; :passed from country. to Country,' givinweeriduistiOnblB in SWit zerlarid Bohemia ` .and ; Saxony but making llollandthe chief seat of their disorders. . Their heresy was not sup pressed, but the great point ivas . gained that they 'hereafter stood in open oppo sition to :the Lutheran-• Reformation. This continued to' move onward, in its' own' lofty and independent' sphere, while the Anabaptists were known as a sect by themselves, and the whole movement, though carrying along with it many good but misguided men, ivaa'manifestly brit' outburst` of fanaticisl, intense and mischievous enough while it lasted, but , soon exhausting - itself and vanishing from-sight. • We read for several years of the Anabaptists in Holland suffering simi lar punishments and persecutions with ,the Protestants, froni the Popish authori ties. ' And juit as the aympatliies and interest' of • many were .• aroused / by the peraccutions and:sufferings , of ,the Pro testants, •so the suffering- :Anabaptists won friends and adherents,. who other .wise would never have known Of 'the existence of the sect. ,So they continued to increase, until, in, the. year. 1533, they made , a bold effort-to realize , theiedrearas Of temporal conquest and dominion. They had become very numerous in the German :town o'f:-.Mnnster, but a few miles east of the boundary of Holland. The: government , having issued a -pro- Clamation against them, they took up arms and invited their,brethren in neigh `boring towns to come to their, aid. , Thus reinforced, they became masters of the place, and those who would not join or :submit to thein, Were compelled to leave :on pain of instant death. :This was in the spring of -1534. 'The whole "town being given over to their control, they plundered the churches and-divided up the goods'of the fugitives: All kinds of books were lonrned but the Bible., (To be Continued.) REV. MR. HAMMOND'S 'LETTER FROM SWITZERLAND. SWITZERLAND, Sept. 17,-1866 MY DEAR Mx. MEAES :—We are still wandering'among the grand' old, moun tains of Switzerland. This is now my fourth visit, -and I, have,. therefore, been able Ito:act as -a guide: for` our Tiarty. - Rev. Dr. Buddington and wife joined us at Paris. We enjoy their society exceedingly. I think•they will go with us all the way •to Palestine. , Last Monday we chartered a carriage to take us dyer the Branig Pass. Seven years ago I went on foot over this same mountain pass. I remember 'I walked that day not less than twenty-five miles. The bracing air of these snow-capped mountains, once we are accustomed to it, enables one to walk this distance with no great fatigue. I was' never more strong and well' than *hen walk ing twenty or thirty miles a day, up and down the mountain passes. I remember that I' then walked up and down the Rhigi without the least injury ; every step of it was full of enjoyment.' But my walk down that mountain:last Fri day was rather severe upon me. My wife and party were on horseback, and I kept up with them all the way. At the time, it was high enjoyment to be bounding along from rock to rock ; • but the next morning I felt as if I was eighty-five years of 'age. But I am now all right again. We reached . the Falls Of GieSbach on Monday night, and were present at their grand illumination with Bengal lights. It reminded me a little of the illuminat ed fountains of the Crystal Palace of which I wrote you. Tuesday we drove from Interlachen to Lauterbrunn- and Grinden*ald. Here welound ourselves in the very midst of 'the glorious Bet.- nese Alps, rising ten or eleven thousand feet in the air. Think of • it—two miles above the leVel of the sea I The sublime . . sights witnessed. from ; these places - . are, to be, seen rather than described. Itis interesting to notice the boundaries; of 'the natural" iingdoM in Switzerland: •The region of oaks : extends .from 1700, to about 2800 feet. The region of fir trees rises to 4000 feet. But flocks , of cattle and goats are seen feeding "far abOvethese. Above 800'0' feet is the lower limit of the regi9n of • eternal snow, where glaciers are.formed and from which, they press their way sometimes- far hfi- Jow,where the' flocks ''crop r the g,reen , herbage.: Here, too„are formedtheaya; lanches which sometimes come tlitinde'r-, ing down the mountain'side. 'At:: Lau leibinna .Wellieard; one which 'Elerinded much. like ;the aipipsion of a cannon; In fact„the . ladies in :our party were . at ... first confident that, it was"a, -cannon., On our way to Griridenwalit I .could .but notice that the cascades from the high mountain sides' were . just about the same, in qiiiintity ,9f - water that: th 4 were seven yeamago, When I flrst,salv, ahem' ;At.first sight, yon would think: that all the water ,would' 'furl.` -off 'these 'barren 'rocks in 'one, hour's' time It .would, seem. as,if there Janet he some, secret - source of = supply; not iat.once dis-. hoVerable.' Sia . 'it occurred 'to me that eminent 'ClitiatianS; who j 4and:' . liikh . above thost around them, and who are, ;much with God; ;have , a , constant , supply . ;of Divine - grace . of which the world 'knows nothing. ,Yea,;; " The secret of the Lord is with them that ,fear,•Him.", l They that -water; gathers , Ighall , them-. 1 selves be watered."' ''Those who ard-1 much in the Divine - -presence can say, "Alt .ruy, springs ,are In ..Theeki' ::"The` World; an d ;worldly Christians= may look with doubt Upon slich, and l exclainithey tare SO.much taled about and looked up to, they will soon get } filled ;with pride and vanity arid then'eease; to bea , bless . king to' others. ' Bet if they can still, year , rafter year, truthfully say, 4 ,-411 my springs are in Thee," they will constant ly be a means 'of' blessing; to -others. Yet, atthe same tinin, with all hliiility, they will feel their entire,, dependence on God, never once forgettingthe words of the Lord Jesus : "; Without Me ye can, 'do nothing," ('.Polin ' - xv. 5). if God has' a *ink for one of his followers .to per form, he can fit him for it, and lead him. all the time to' feel that he is hint . an humble agent in the hands' of the -Dis penser of events. I' : could but notice that as, we, from time to time, ascended higher up the mountain sides, sometimes' reaching as far as five or eight thousand. t t that the size_ of the atones laid ' n the thatched roofs was increased. We ob se:.ved.that on some`of the buildings on the 'sides of the mountains, a mile, or, more high, the stones were each as large as a man could lift, when only a' few' miles distant, in the valley; they . were much smaller. We were told that it : Was because the wind along the high mountain .passes is sometimes so Strong as to blew :of their roofs,, yea, and to break their :houses in' pieces if these great stones. are not placed on- them to keep them down. Does not God also find it necessary , to place many weights, upon those,Who make high attainmentsdn the Divine life ? Dr. Payson once said that "Few knew the penalty of popularity. 7 Those who have read:his life knew how many were ,his afflictions. This may be the reason he never seems to have been made proud, because he was Permitted to be 'a work ing servant for the Master. Paul " was caught up , into Paradise," and that was one reason why - , ;it seems, the Lord fnund it necessary to lay trials, more' heavy than stones, to keep him, from ;being , blown away'to destruction by the stormy winds of ,temptation: He found that God in love sent them upon• him, lest he " should be exalted a,bove"mea , sure." And he could hear his Father "y s su went for thee grace.iffi ' ' say : for my strength is made perfect in weak ness." No wonder that‘hesubreissively exclaims : "Most gladly, therefore, will ,I rather glory in my infirmities, that.the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproacheS, in necessities; in perse6U tions; in distresses.for Christ,'"s sake, for. when :.I ; am weak' then am I strong.", : Would that all God's children- were 'as submissive under their hurdens of Or rows as Was Paul. We spent a day or two •very plea santly at Berne.' It 'commands one 'of the finest views Of. the Beim*, Alps. We sat 'for hours, filled. with wonder and delight at the constantly changing panorama. It was interesting to learn all the names of the different peaks. It, is wonderful how fond you become •of mountains the more you dwell among' them. They have a language of their' own, which is not at once easily trans:. lated. I well•rernember,how I was .dis=` appointed at the first sight of Gray Loch and the mountains about Williams' College, of which I had heard so much. But I was a freshman then, in that one. particular. I had not been much ac quainted with mountain scenery. Hence I was not able at once to discovertbe beauty and majesty of the everlasting hills. But after I had lived four years among those mountains"-or I should call them, in speaking of them from Switzerland:--I .learned to love them. I had Via,ndere - d -- up and , down their, steep sides and learned, among •other things, that they were much higher than I had supposed. So I have found that the longer I linger among the. Alps, the better I understand them. 'Li the distance, the. Rhigi looks email. So it is, - when compared with Mount Blanc, which is more than three times as high. Bid a walk up or down the Rhigi, which from its isolateA position, com mands ope,of, the, finest views in Swit serland, convinces one of its deserved repntation. , Itiis no' wonder , that himJ dzedS, day after day; `all Sniing the sum-, mer months, climb to , its top. ' ' We spent one night .at Rogatz, that we might. 'drive out to fifeffers-bad, which is one pf the inept, ""'remarkable places in, Switzerland. Our nide-books toldi us it was •"the nibst tremendous tgOrge in the whole chain of the ,Alim;'", 'and I ani Une'cOntent to believe it It' so•deep in places ~so. entirely covered :over: and shaded from• the . sun,.that4t is• , Erie; difficult to read, At eniforit • riot springrather, ‘, • . • • • • • winner cace4,to expose my hand to, for any length of time. These waters supply a.large water-cure establishment. 7 From COire we ,'took the , i dilligence over, the Splugen, which ,follows' up to the, source of the Rhine. When we reached the defile of the Via, Iffqla, we'ail alight: ed to, gaze, ,upon „the - wpriders of the :The rocits Tlek almost perpen dibularly 1600 'feet above the roaring torrent A: flat stone falling hiindreds of feet into the Stream iiani the bridge,` the whple place,ring with the loud, report 7 We passed the;Sabhathst Spin gen, not quite a' mile 'high, but . so`; high that:we found, snow about us . . It, snowed nearly all day.,_ It was, indeed, a Sabbath never tp . forg4ten. The day ,before, fialikValle.Y” e had, suffered"vliti l , igi'e"tiea7i, and ev)ri - as we ascend4L` e, ` we. saw the farmers ,all• along loading., hay, .on. their. little wegons; drawn•by cows. So you r •• se, - we pred I fret., 'summer to , wi l ikteTAlr ,9 1 1thYr,— , • Sabbath 'morning ,we went , to the Pro testant was filled with ae- Vont •Vor'Shipyiks: Many must have walked miles . down the, slippery, moun tain to be • ,,present. was perfectly amazed: to find ?our or five hundred pre sent. In all the storm and with only a few' house in sight, I:only expected 'to see about fifty, tender, babe, even, was .brought through the snow to ,be baptized. It , was, as 'is the ''eustom,. WraPped'ap like at,' ,Tgyptiap,inuml4. The 'German minister fondled if, three times with water, as,heibaptized it in the name •of the Father and - of the Son and Of tlinlifely Ghost. We have to go -7000 feet : above. tl e,. level of ,the sea before - wereach the top of the mountain. But I must close this letter and send it' down the mountain. toward, the Unites States. 'I 'shall yen- Lure to inclose some verses which I wrote one day last week, while sitting in• our cariage waiting for the Jung Fraii,.tow:: ering 12,827 feet in the <air, r - riteftril her 'virgin brow. All' around us was ,fog, and so my thoughts wandered back. to. our voyage across the ocean, and tried to express, in simple lines, the impression produced on my mind by the fabt aske sailed from west 'to east, our, waMes'lost twenty minutes each day. So, it occurred to me, as we approached the Sun of Righteousness we shall find our old views changing as, our longitude of soul varies. . • As o'er the deep blue sea we sail, With ever hastening speed, If we the rising sun wouldlail, The'true time we must heed. Our watches we shall ever Are losing time , each day; And if we would not be behind, We must • not heed` their say. If we would keep them with the, sun, They must be, daily set; For 'soon 'they far behind would run, If we shduldthis forget.' Thus, as we sail o'er life's rough sea, Most surely we shall find, . That as. we nearer draw to Christ, The world is left behind. • And should they chance tothink it strange, • We , cease "with them to run,"* Then we can tell>them we have changed As we.approach the sun. Yds, we can, tell . them we have not That longifade of sonl, Whicl we once,had when we set out To reach the heavenly goal. As t toyvarcl the Sii of ,righteousness • We evermore draw , nigh, • , , Like His will be our glorious dress When we are Called'to die.. ' Thep, landed safe beyond'hfe s sea, `We!ne'er froth `Chris . shall part, • But in all-perfect harmony . :We shalrbe one in heart. ' 1 Pet:iv. 4. Your brother in Christ, E. P. 11:a AMON]) Ntitvr7,s Eabtf. 'PWiDENBoRG. The Divine Attributes, in ' eluding_also the Divine Trinity; a Treatise on`the Divine,Love, and Wisdom and Cor respondence. From the " Apocalypse Fa , plained' ' of Emanuel `Swedenborg. 'Phila delphia :.;J. B. Lippincott & Co. 12m0., pp. 390. 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The tstory, however, is. not fsr beyond the: ranges of ;common' inventibni and the-pbem is chiefly remarkable for the play-of artigt .lite,agoundrthe simple tocidents. , !We niust, take, <the of calling thb author, to task ,for tre'ating pictur esiluely, snd,apoioge,tically the ,vices into wisich,ungeyeined passion is too-apt to lesd youth„ surrounded with the peen , liar .blandishments of art. There are not a few gifted minds„ now-a-days, not e6koned..2acapng the epenly: immoral, have, ~much to answer for in, thk pernicious ifashion they follows - %of gilding unlawful ,pleasuresp and alluring' our youih, _under i s flimSy, pretexts of w4rning, to nothings else than. xdissipa~ tiou, loss of inwardpurity,und -a 'career thit takes hold on , . •-. , • WI MPLE: Character 'and OharaCter4etic Men: p. 324. .d3oston:. Ticknor & Fields.. FOX Ole lsy J. 13. Lippincot`&..oo. One of the most genial of our Ameri. _ can lecturers is Whipple. 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It has beeit a scandal' to the current literature of the day. ' We learn that the author entertains the !purpose to' Prosecute for damages one ;of his' crities - who • has held up the offences of the,beoll against morality to public reprobation, as they deserved. Such an attempt would issue 'in coy ering' the' book and its author in still deeper infamy. TusißLlNo Pungens. By the Author Of " Opposite the Jail." Boston : Henry Biyt. 1,8m0., pp. 229 ..' Presbyterian Bdok Store, 1334 Chestnut-Street. Quite too-sorrowful, not to say, hartow: ing, 4 story to be reckoned among the best ,class of children's • books. TROWBRIDGE. Agnes Wilbur, or a Daugh ter's Influence. By Catherine M. Troiv bridge. Small ISmo., pp. 251. J. G Garrigues &Co.' , A simply told story of the conversion of a fashionable city girl, a child of wealth, And of her after-usefulness in the family - of her father, then — redUced in fortune. Full of ` useful lessens; but lacking in: point and interest:.: PERIODICALS. 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Paganism and the Roman Empire.-Tick (17 '' Fields announce that they have bilEght from Little, Brown & Co. the stereotype plates and thei entire stock Of the impor tant and valuable" series of books known as " The British Poets," comprisino. 130 volumes. Their own. very complete list of later and living poets will be included in it.--11fessrs. Iturd ck Houghton have in 'press, for immediate publication, an Ameri can ,edition of Dr. William. Smith's Die tionaiy of the Bible, under the, editorship Of _Prof. H. B. Hackett, D.D., assisted by many eminent scholars. The appendi..will be incorporated into the body of the - Work, the references verified, errors corrected. and numerous, articles and engravings ad ded, Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, have just published the ninth vol ume` of: Mr.' George Bancroft's History of the - tlnite"d ` i States. The period embraced in tills is' from ifuly, 1716, to April, 177 g; 'another whime, to apper early nest year; will cointplete-the'whole. Among French announce ments 4e'find lionis de I Beaufort's " Dis sertation 'on the'rncertainty Of the Firsi. 'PiveAues.of _Roman History," which is Aupposed, to tare suggested to Niebuhr his Tarepus,doubts ; " The .Correspondence of the ileforiners in - Countries where French Was_Spoken",.(a great many unpublished ‘documents :relating to Calvin and other , French' reforthers Will appear in this col lection) ; Baiin " 0,11 the Condition of Artists in 0-reek Antiquity." , no j . of niitation Christ.—As an illus. tratiOW'ot the gieAt number .of copies of thfs , work that . ' have been produced, it is stated that 'irt France 'alone' there have been more than sixty translations and more than a thousand editions in French. B 6 .anger and his NU/she's Coachman. --The publisher of ilieranger's works was L Ferman whO. gave him an. annuity of Opoo..to T for ,the copyright of all his works. An ordinarylostler asks 665 more a, year than this man, of genius re ceived ; and the strange, sight, was to be witnessed of M. Perrotin being driven to his cOinti'y-peat by a 'man 'who received more for his`mknual later than . the genius did w'h& in great part suppOrted master, 'man, horses and carriage.—Cor. Childs' Lit. Gazette. - Speaking , of the death, probably by starvation, 'of a young literary aspirant of Paris, the Paris 'correspondent of Childs' Literary Gazette, says :—He forgot—as so many forget—that a longer novitiate is re quired in literature,than in any other pro fession. No man thinks of adopting the law, Or . , medicine, or engineering as a pro fession, unless he is th master of money enough to support him in the school and 'during the first year of professional life. But almost every man thinks he can earn money as a-writer from the very outset, seven though; as is often - the case, he is ig norant of. orthography and syntax. We ShoUld hear a great deal less about the dis tress of young literary men if they would ,`consent to use these assistances which are at liana during their novitiate. The most , eminent writers recommend these assist ance* is pitotections to the dignity, as aids to the kaprovement and rapid success of the literary man. Spinoza polished glasses for optical instrument-makers while medi tating and writing his extraordinary phi losophical" treatises. Franklin supported himself • as= a printer. N. Mieheet re fused to ,earn 'bread by writing gas a hack, and supported himself by teaching until he felt himself able, to write. M. Renee 'supported himself by teaching school until he ascertained that he was sufficiently mas ter of his pep to, draw support from it. M. 'PrevoSt-Paradol likewiSe supported himself during his literary novitiate by teaching. M. Taine, long after he beedirte well known as an-author, continue& to teach. Some of his friends expressed their astonish ment.. He., replied :—" I wish to write , only when,,where, and as I please, and no author can enjpy this independence unless he, is able to do, without . editors of news papers and publishers. I have allotted to myself a minimum of fortune, which I re gard as indispensable to comfortable mate rial life; and ivhen I shall have attained it, I shall philosophize at my pleasure." Mme.'Greorge Sand supported herself by painting fans until her pen supplied her with sufficient income: Young authors ought to. bear these examples in mind, and to imitate them. There are a great many employments where the literary neophyte May earn his livelihood while he is fitting himself for his new profession. If he dis dains these, for some discreditable vanity, and resolves to have no bed and no board but such as his inexperienced pen may pro -vide; he cannot complain if a life of hard ship and a premature grave are his portion. Course of 'English. Reading.—The Na tion,et. 4, speaks of a work entitled, ".A. Con e of ; English Literature," lately pub lish.l.i!) ed by James Hannay, author ota plc ant essay on Thackeray, and a reada ble 'Volume called " Satire and Satirists. M Hannay . divides English literature into eprehs, and, giying to each a backbone ?f , hi tory,. he alloire divergence, at the will o the reader, among philosophy, poetry. fi tion, letters, and light reading. He only r commend* what is best to be read, nE, owing the style of the author and reflect ng the spirit of the time. An American 1 edition is soon to he' issued by Messrs. Chas. peribner & Co., which will contain the de ex- . cellent addition of a list of the most ugh sirable editions of the works recommende d in the book, by a well-known thorough a guide for buying an English library. bibliographer. b This will, in fact,
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