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ment, he is liable to forget other men, and lose all sympathy with the world, and interest in its affairs. Coming to college fully resolved to do all in his power for self-culture, he can execute his purpose in no way except by close application. Accordingly he withdraws from all distracting influences-comrades, societies, public affairs generally, with those pertaining to his institution and the community at large-and devotes his entire energy to his immediate pursuits. The result is obvious. Naturally we are interested only in those things to which we turn our attention. A man loves anything, be it book, farm or trade, according to the measure of himself that he puts into it. The soul is concerned in the prosperity of the Right and Truth, just so far as it is a shareholder in them, and no further. "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Isolation in life and action begets isolation in feeling. If a man can force himself into a small circle of enjoyments and aspirations, he can become content with it. The prisoner in the Bastile for fifty years learned to love his narrow cell with its darkness, better than the wide world with its light. The student who excludes the world and its transactions from mind, and makes his room his sole dwelling place, and his books his only companions, finds his taste gradually circumscribed, and desires a share in not being without his own limited sphere. Public spirit is a stranger to him. The public welfare is no concern of his. Matters relating to college, as an institution established for certain high ends, are without interest. In the outer world, a financial crisis, its causes and workings, although it plunge thousands into distress, do not move him. A political contest, however great the principles at stake,—a revolution, even, unless it invade his own private sanctum, blows over him without exciting either his hopes or fears. The great ever-throbbing heart of humanity finds no response in his bosom. For all he cares, struggle may succeed, justice be crushed out of existence and the oppressed groan on forever.

That this is a danger to which the faithful student is liable, and which grows out of his devotion to his work, we believe, both from the nature of the case, and from observation. We have seen such men as we have faintly described. They are more numerous among us than they ought to be. And we do not wonder at it. It is often owing more to excellence in taste than narrow selfishness. A good author is a more agreeable companion than ordinary men. There is something far more enticing in the higher exercises of the intellect, in speculation, in "those thoughts that wander through eternity," in searching out the wonders of the world, than in the plain practicalities of every day life. Poetry has

more power to charm than the discouraging work of reform. The ideal is always far more delightful than the real. Yet, the use of all these is to make us stronger for the struggles of life. We care not how eminent a man's abilities may be, how vast and varied his learning, or how numerous and perfect his accomplishments, unless there is a purpose for action. If he be alive to at least some of the interests of men, he falls very far short of a perfect manhood. He is not so properly a part of the human race, as an useless, annoying appendage to it. The teachings of an heathen put him to shame.

"Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto."

Moreover, the student is liable to disqualify himself for personal influence. This would legitimately follow from what has been said. We have no power where we have no sympathy. But besides, the man with feelings alive and purposes true, may confine himself so closely, even with the intention of gaining strength for influence, as to defeat his own end. His habits become settled, inflexible. His methods of thought differ from those of other men. His processes are slower, his conclusions more reliable, but he lacks the intuitive judgment of the man of the world. He never trusts instinct, for he has never had occasion to do so in his intellectual pursuits. He fears impulse, for it may be philosophically wrong. He distrusts the ways of men. In turn they distrust him, and laugh at his conservatism.

He is not familiar with the various shades of opinion among men, and can exercise little forbearance towards their local prejudices. He sees how things ought to be, and cannot tolerate them as they are. His very excellencies become a barrier between him and others. The difference between his sphere and the common citizen's, is the same in kind, perhaps less in degree, as that between the idealistic German and the Indian hunter in the back-woods, of America. One has no part with the other. He has no great principles or purposes in common with mankind.

Much more might be said on this subject, but we have no room for it. We do not decry hard study, nor the scholarship it produces. More of it is needed. We only touch upon its liabilities. Our ideal scholar is a man who has large and various affinities of soul, whose mental absorption is powerful in every department of knowledge, and whose acquisitions are all transmuted into character and vital power. A man is not to be estimated by his manifest capacity for storage, but by what he weighs. We hear much murmuring against our colleges because they

do not furnish practical men. Believing our educated men to be of higher utility than these critics can appreciate, that they mould the philosophy which underlies the movements of merely practical men, and mark out the channels in which the great tides of human thought and feeling flow, we have little sympathy with the charge. Yet we regret that the influence of our scholars is not so direct and immediate, so open and palpable to the most casual observer as to leave no ground for cavil..

S. H. L.

Book Notices.

The American Journal of Education. Published quarterly. Edited by HENRY BARNARD, LL. D. Vol. IV, Sept. 1857.

A Magazine of such high standing as this requires no encomium from us, but we wish to call attention to this number from the unusual attractions it offers to students. Besides a vast amount of matter on general education, equally valuable to the pupil and the instructor, it contains two articles of peculiar interest; a biography of Edmund Dwight, a graduate of this Institution in 1799, whose noble benefactions did so much in the cause of education, and whose life cannot but please every one who admires that noblest work of God, a pure-hearted, right-minded man; and an article on Public Prayers in Colleges, by a writer whose name is a sufficient recommendation- Professor F. D. Huntington. The conclusions he arrives at are, that punctual attendance at prayers should be obligated; that these should consist of lections of the Scriptures, if responsive, still better,-of singing, good, artistic, but by no means operatic, and. of prayer, strictly liturgical or strictly extemporaneous; that they should be but once a day, and then at an hour when they will not "act as a wrench to pull the reluctant attendants out of their beds," and lastly, that it is doubtfully advisable to take advantage of this opportunity to enumerate the students. A curious little schedule in the same number, is the "Expenses of Eton College in 1560." The "Summa totalis of the whol payment," for the two sons of Sir William Cavendish, for one year, amounts to only £25, 11s. 6d., (about $63 apiece;) now, O tempora! O mores! it requires five times that amount for one to keep body and soul together.

Chile con Carne; or the Camp and the Field.
York: Miller & Curtis. 1 Vol. 8vo.
Chile con Carne means red pepper and

VOL. XXIII.

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By S. COMPTON SMITH. New For sale by T. H. Pease. meat, and is the name of an

exceedingly popular and high flavored dish in Mexico. A very well chosen name it is, too, for the book before us, in which the basis of historical fact serves excellently for the meat, while the racy humor with which it abounds cannot fail to season it to the temper of the most unhistoric palate. Mr. Smith was an army surgeon under Taylor, was present at Monterey, Buena Vista, and any quantity of guerilla fights and "scrimmages" of all kinds, all of which he paints with such life, precision and humor, that any one who wants to laugh himself into a knowledge of the Mexican war, cannot do better than buy his book. Glimpses of Nineveh. B. C. 690. New York: Miller & Curtis. 1 Vol. 8vo. 1857. For sale by T. H. Pease.

Here is a work on the model of the Voyage d'Anacharsis, and Kingsley's Hypatia. In a series of familiar letters between persons of that age, (imaginary ones of course,) it attempts to truthfully portray the advances made in literature, science and the arts, by the Ninevites and Babylonians of the palmy days of King Sennacherib. The idea is good and well carried out, but we would have liked some references occasionally. Those who hold in horror tomes of the magnitude of Ledyard's, will find this a pleasant, instructive, and opportune volume.

Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Monthly, for October, 1857.

The recent sale and amalgamation of Putnam is familiar to us all. We cannot say we are entirely pleased with the resultant compound. Wood engraving is very well as a set off to subject matter, but editor's should bear in mind that there is such a thing as sinking a Magazine into a mere pictorial. "A Tale of Lager Beer" is not without wit, but some of the pieces have too much of the newspaper novellette style about them to please good taste. De gustibus, &c., however, and those desirous of judging for themselves can obtain a copy from Mr. Pease.

Memorabilia Valensia.

CATALOGUE OF YALE GRADUATES

Deceased during the Collegiate year 1856-7, including a few of earlier date previ

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Age.

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1793.

Name.

Rev. Benjamin Parsons,
William Marchant,1

Asa Bacon,

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Place and date of Decease.

Brooklyn, N. Y., April 15, 1857,
South Kingston, R. I., Jan. 21, 1857,
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 5, 1857,
Colebrook, Conn., Sept. 13, 1856,
Youngstown, O., July 19, 1856,
Columbus, Mpi., Aug. 10, 1856,
Utica, N. Y., May 21, 1857,
Cleveland, O., Feb. 20, 1857,
New York City, May 11, 1857,
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 13, 1856,
Clinton, Conn., Sept., 29, 1856,
Williamsburg, Va., Jan. 10, 1857,
New Haven, Conn., Sept. 3, 1856,
Otsego Co., N. Y., Feb. 3, 1857,
Walnut Hills, O., March 19, 1857,
Bennington, N. H., Sept. 27, 1856,
Wethersfield, Conn., Feb. 1, 1857,

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83.

86.

79.

80.

80.

75.

75.

74.

77.

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73.

76.

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1813. Prof. Elisha Mitchell,"

1813.

Charles Perkins,

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Black Mountain, N. C., June 27, 1857, 64.

London, Eng., Nov. 18, 1856,

Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1856,

Bridgehampton, N. Y., April 14, 1857,

Owasso, Mich., May 28, 1857,

Dover, Del., Nov. 9, 1856,

Fayetteville, N. C., June 15, 1856,
Annapolis, Md., Jan. 25, 1857,
Perrysville, Ind., Aug. 29, 1856,
Beirut, Syria, Jan. 11, 1857,
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 13, 1856,
Hartford, Conn., May 31, 1857,
New Rochelle, N. Y., June 2, 1857,

Lockport, N. Y., March 17, 1857,
College Hill, O., Jan. 24, 1857,

2. Librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society.

3. Eminent as an Ecclesiastical Historian.

4. Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New York City and County.

5. President of Hampden Sidney College, Va.

6. Professor in Trinity College, Hartford.

7. Professor in University of North Carolina.

8. Secretary of United States in 1845.

9. President of St. John's College, Md.

10. Missionary, celebrated as an Arabic scholar.

11. Professor in Farmer's College, Ohio.

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73.

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64.

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