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Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
The Miches that breed no Sorrow . By the Rev . ERSKINE NEALE , M . A ., Rector of Kirton , Suffolk , and Chaplain to Earl Spencer , & c . London , Longman and Co . The title of this volume is at once original and appropriate , containing , as it does , an alternate series of biographical sketches of extraordinary characters , who have contributed , more or less , to the godlike cause of Charit and have left behind " riches that breed
y , no sorrow , " and of those who , possessing the largest earthly means , have hoarded them to their own disgrace and misery . The author sets out with the history of Bryan Blundell , a fatherless boy , afterwards a rich merchant seaman , who gave one-tenth of what he acquired towards tbe noble foundation of the Blue Coat Hospital in Liverpool . Then follow , in pleasing succession , spirited sketches of " Jemmy Wood , the miser of Gloucester ; " Rev . William
Hetherington , who conceived and matured the charity for the blind , after having himself for some time been deprived of sight . " Morgan Jones , the Miser of Blewbury ; " " Betton , the Turkey merchant ;" " Cavendish , the philosopher ; " "Bancroft , the Lord ' Mayor ' s footman ; " " The Marquis of Hertford ; " " Lawyer Brame , of " Ipswich ;" " William ( first ) Earl Nelson ; " " Christopher Tancred , of AVhixley ;" "The Dukeof Queensberry EdwardAVortlMontague" "
, " " ey ; Henry Welby ; " " John Stock-, of Hampstead ; " « Ostervald , the banker ; ' " and " Mrs . Elizabeth Prowse , of Wicken Park , " are all noticed in the work . In introducing the history of the penurious Morgan Jones , curate of Blewbury , Bro . Neale remarks on the character of clergymen generally , that
" Some who give , give ' of then- abundance , ' others of a mere pittance . It is true there are exceptions ; so large a body will have members who do not aet up to their professions , ancl Mr . Jones , of Blewbury , was ono . This Eev . gentleman held the curacy of Blewbury for five-and-forty years . His stipend at no period of his professional career exceeded thirty guineas per annum ; ancl yet , by habits of parsimony which woulcl sustain comparison with those even of the celebrated Elwes , he left behind him , in 1827 , 1 , 50 ( K . Those who remember him in Ms ministerial capacity , describe him as a man of good natural and b deficient in scholarshi It admits of proofthat in
powers , y no means p . , early life he was deceived by a party whom ho had essentially served . Thenceforth he distrusted all tho world ; ancl throughout his subsequent career , attached the most overweening ancl undue importance to money . The death of a relative made him owner of a little property , which produced 30 / . per annum . This , with bis stipend and the interest of his savings for the previous year , he regularly invested in the funds . His surplice-fees , as curate , amounted on an average to half-a-crown a week : upon this he contrived to five . Sometimes , indeedso successful was he in the management of his jiittancehe made it
, , yield him the surplus of a few pence at the end of the week . He kept no servant , allowed no ' womankind' to clean his rooms , or to assist him in any of his domestic arrangements . He was himself his whole retinue , —discharged the duties of housemaid , chambermaid , and eook , and officiated as his own washerwoman and tailor ' "
Now for his portrait : — - _ " In appearance he was a walking scarecrow ; the hat which hung upon his head , ancl the rags which ho wore upon his back , were enough to frighten all the birds in the neighbourhood . The same hat ancl coat hacl served him
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Literary Notices.
LITERARY NOTICES .
The Miches that breed no Sorrow . By the Rev . ERSKINE NEALE , M . A ., Rector of Kirton , Suffolk , and Chaplain to Earl Spencer , & c . London , Longman and Co . The title of this volume is at once original and appropriate , containing , as it does , an alternate series of biographical sketches of extraordinary characters , who have contributed , more or less , to the godlike cause of Charit and have left behind " riches that breed
y , no sorrow , " and of those who , possessing the largest earthly means , have hoarded them to their own disgrace and misery . The author sets out with the history of Bryan Blundell , a fatherless boy , afterwards a rich merchant seaman , who gave one-tenth of what he acquired towards tbe noble foundation of the Blue Coat Hospital in Liverpool . Then follow , in pleasing succession , spirited sketches of " Jemmy Wood , the miser of Gloucester ; " Rev . William
Hetherington , who conceived and matured the charity for the blind , after having himself for some time been deprived of sight . " Morgan Jones , the Miser of Blewbury ; " " Betton , the Turkey merchant ;" " Cavendish , the philosopher ; " "Bancroft , the Lord ' Mayor ' s footman ; " " The Marquis of Hertford ; " " Lawyer Brame , of " Ipswich ;" " William ( first ) Earl Nelson ; " " Christopher Tancred , of AVhixley ;" "The Dukeof Queensberry EdwardAVortlMontague" "
, " " ey ; Henry Welby ; " " John Stock-, of Hampstead ; " « Ostervald , the banker ; ' " and " Mrs . Elizabeth Prowse , of Wicken Park , " are all noticed in the work . In introducing the history of the penurious Morgan Jones , curate of Blewbury , Bro . Neale remarks on the character of clergymen generally , that
" Some who give , give ' of then- abundance , ' others of a mere pittance . It is true there are exceptions ; so large a body will have members who do not aet up to their professions , ancl Mr . Jones , of Blewbury , was ono . This Eev . gentleman held the curacy of Blewbury for five-and-forty years . His stipend at no period of his professional career exceeded thirty guineas per annum ; ancl yet , by habits of parsimony which woulcl sustain comparison with those even of the celebrated Elwes , he left behind him , in 1827 , 1 , 50 ( K . Those who remember him in Ms ministerial capacity , describe him as a man of good natural and b deficient in scholarshi It admits of proofthat in
powers , y no means p . , early life he was deceived by a party whom ho had essentially served . Thenceforth he distrusted all tho world ; ancl throughout his subsequent career , attached the most overweening ancl undue importance to money . The death of a relative made him owner of a little property , which produced 30 / . per annum . This , with bis stipend and the interest of his savings for the previous year , he regularly invested in the funds . His surplice-fees , as curate , amounted on an average to half-a-crown a week : upon this he contrived to five . Sometimes , indeedso successful was he in the management of his jiittancehe made it
, , yield him the surplus of a few pence at the end of the week . He kept no servant , allowed no ' womankind' to clean his rooms , or to assist him in any of his domestic arrangements . He was himself his whole retinue , —discharged the duties of housemaid , chambermaid , and eook , and officiated as his own washerwoman and tailor ' "
Now for his portrait : — - _ " In appearance he was a walking scarecrow ; the hat which hung upon his head , ancl the rags which ho wore upon his back , were enough to frighten all the birds in the neighbourhood . The same hat ancl coat hacl served him