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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 56, 7 September 1872, Page 3

O.MiTiYiiK'a Early Wkitings—And certainly Mr. Cfirlylo did not ■ affect completion at thet"nc when he wrote his " Miseellanies." Then ho whs content to revive all the figure* of history or 1 iterative 011 the unruffled surface of a mind that could afford to be generous, tluit was not wedded to any exclusive hypothesis of its own, that could admire without falling down to worship, and sympathise where strong admiration was impossible. Consider the following widely different characters: —Burns, Novalis, Johnson, Boswell, Hume, Voltaire, Louis XVI. In including the last-named we are considering the " French Revolution " as well as the " Miscellanies;" and indeed they stand side by side, belonging, as they do, to the same period of Mr. Carlyle's life. llow few are there who could not have found something to love and esteem in nil the seven men whose names wo have set down! How vast is the interval between the Gorman transcendent alist and the strong common sense of Johnson ? How opposed are they alike to the intellectual coldnoss of Hume! And if all these three have tho kinship of genius, the common-place unmarked character of Louis XVI. affords no such reason why Mr. Carlyle should trace his fortunes with sympathy. No one who reads the "Miscellanies" and the " French Revolution" attentively will deny that the breadth to sympathy displayed therein is one of the rarest qualities ever exhibited by any man. We are not saying that all Mr. Carlyle's judgments, even here, are perfect. Most peoplo will think that lie rates Burns too high ; and a Frenchman would probably consider that he gave inadequate recognition to the universality of Voltaire. But theso defect b of a luxuriant nature are trivial when compared with the sterility of ordinary historians and moralists, who can do nothing but barrenly admire or condemn, and have not the patient care which follows a man through the changing scenes of his fortunes, marking at once the internal nature that made him act as he did, and the external consequences, good or bad, that flowed from his act.. The cold impartiality of Ilallam, so much praised, has no doubt its value; it keeps alive its 3ense of justice, so much needed among men ; but it is not to be named by . the side of that warm intelligence which apprehends, not merely the upshot of a nmn'a life, but the whole course of it.—Quarterly Review. Mark TwAfs's Visit to Brigham: Yopng.—The second day we made the acquaintance of Mr Street (since deceased), and put on white shirts and went and paid a visit to the king. He seemed a quiet, kindly, easy-mannered, dignified old gentleman of 55 or 60, and had a gentle craft in his eye that probably belonged there. He was very simply dressed, and was just taking off a straw hat as we entered. He talked about Utah and the Indians and Nevada and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain Government officials who came with us. But he never paid any attention to me, notwithstanding I made several attempts to " draw him out" on Federal politics and his high-handed attitude toward Congress. I thought some of the things I said were rather fine. But he merely looked around at me, at distant intervals, somewhat as I have seen a benignant old cat look around to see which kitten was meddling with her tail. By and bye I subsided into an indignant silence, and so sat until the end, < llOt and flushed, execrating him in my heart for an ignorant savage. But he was calm. His conversa- ! tion with those gentlemen flowed on as sweetly as a summer brook. TV hen the audience was ended and ; we were retiring from the presence, he put his hand on my head, beamed down on me in an admiring way, and said to my brother: " All —your —child, I presume. Boy or girl ?" " No noose is good news," as the culprit said when he was reprieved. ]

Or-iVKK Wkndkl Holmes on Wom\n.—A woman, notwithstanding she iB the best of listeners, knows her business, and it is a woman's buainesa to please. I don't say that it is not her business to vote, but I do say that the woman who does not plciwe is a false note in the harmonies of nature. She may not have youth, or beauty, or even manner, but she must have something in her voice and manner, but she must have something in her voice or expression, or both, which it makes you feel better disposed towards your race to look at or listen to. She knows that as well as we do; and her first question after you have been talking your soul into her consciousness is " Did I please ?" A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel any day. Womanly women are very kindly critics, except to themselves, and now and then to their own sex. The less there is of sex in a woman the more Bhe is to be dreaded. But take a real woman at her best moment —well dressed enough to be pleased with herself, but so resplendent as to be a show and a sensation with varied outside influences that set vibrating the harmonic notes of her nature stirring in the air about her —and what has social life to compare with one of those vital interchanges of thought and feeling with her that make an hour memorable? What can equal her tact, her delicacy, her subtlety of apprehension, her quickness to feel the changes of temperature as the warm and cool currents of thought blow by turns? At one moment she is microscopically intellectual, critical, scrupulous in judgment as an analyst's balance; and the next, as sympathetic as the open rose that sweetens the wind from whatever quarter it finds its way to her bosom. It is in the hospitable soul of a woman that a man forgets he is a stranger, and so becomes natural and truthful, at the same time that he is mesmerised by all those divine differences which make her a mystery and a bewilderment. —The Atlantic Monthly.

In Bell's Lip'., of May 4, will be found an account of what that journal terms " one of the most extraordinary matches at billiards on record." The contestants were S. W. Stanley and F. Bennett, who, it would appear, played at Smith's Rooms, the Strand, for u stake of £100 a-side. They were old opponentand at the same saloon a short time before, Bennet t beat Stanley somewhat easily for a Btake of £50. On this occasion, however, Bennett suffered a most signal defeat. A new table had been made for the .match by Watts and Burroughs, with 3£ inch pockets, and the game was to be 1000 up. Stanley ran away from his opponent the very first. In seven breaks he scored no less than 959 points, giving the unprecedented average of 137 points per break. During the seven breaks he performed the celebrated spot stroke no less than 293 times, which alone scored 779 points. His largest break was 3C6 points, which ineluded no loss than 96 spot strokes. He put the 10C0 points together in I huu • and 20 m'nut :', which according to Jirti's Life is the fastest play on record. Game was called during an unfinished break and when Bennett's score stood at 164, thus Stanley won by 836 points, with the cue in hand. The report of the match concludes by saying—" The young spot hazard striker (Stanley) exceeded by far any of his previous efforts, in fact we may say that it has almost, if not quite surpassed, any performance of our leading Cueists." The following is recommended as an excellent reel oe for white-wash for out-door work :—To make white-wash, or cheap paint, which will last on wood, bi-ick, or Btone, twenty or thirty years : Nice unslacked lime, ono half bushel; slake it with boiling water, covering it during the process to keep in the steam ; strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it salt one peck, previously well dissolved in water ; vice, three pounds, boiled to a thin paste and stirred in boiling hot ; Spanish whiting, one halfpound ; clean, nice glue, one pound, which has been previously dissolved in water, soaking it well; and t hen hanging it over a slow fire in a small kettle immersed in a larger one filled with water; now add hot water, five gallons, to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from dirt, then apply hot.