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this punishment . ' They then placed one of the heated bars into his two hands ; and he continued with the same calmness : ' This also is just ; these hands have given the waters of baptism , and ought to be burned with fire . I accept with joy these explanations of my past errors . May God have mercy upon mo ! ' The torture was continued . They bound round his arms hemp steeped in tar , and set fire to it ; but tbe constancy of the old man did not fail him . He intoned the sacred psalms of Zionall the hytes joined in chorus . The Popesseeing that
; neop , nothing could shake the firmness of the old man , ordered the executioners to cast him upon the pyre ; at that instant the flames enveloped him as with a mantle of glory , one might have said that the soul of the martyr was wrapped in its heavenly robes to appear before the throne of Jehovah . "
His fate did not frighten his coreligionists ; they cried out with one accord , "Let us join the soul of Rabbi Abraham in eternity ;" and without awaiting the executioners , men , women , and children , cast themselves into the flames , invoking the name of the Gocl of Israel . Nearly one hundred persons perished thus , ancl it required armed force to prevent others following their example . Some were sent to Siberiaothers to the fortress of Riga ; the rest were
, compelled to embrace Christianity , but continued to exercise the Hebrew religion clandestinely . Of this the government was not ignorant , but prudently closed its eyes . The author relates that , when in 1814 the Emperor Alexander gave toleration to fifty-two sects , the SchobataiksvfCTC among the number , and they immediately went forth to dispose of their bosniches ( images of gold and silver ) , which until then they hacl ostensibly made use of .
Having drunk quite deep enough from this well of horrors , we take leave of Javan Metsoula's work , which is of great interest , and affords another chapter towards that huge mountain of records which perpetuate the sufferings of the conscientious ancl the fanatic in the cause of religion .
NOTES ON LITEEATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART . THE Lincoln Times says : — " It is not improbable that Newstead Abbey , the seat of the late Colonel AVildmau , and formerly the residence of Lord Byron , with its magnificent domain , will shortly pass into the hands of Mr . Charles Soely , of Heighuigton Hall , who , wo are informed , is in treat y for this interesting property . " Tho price paid for the
property by the late owner is said to have been £ 100 , 000 . Dr . George Wilson , the biographer of Reid and Cavendish , is just dead . Dr . AVilson was the first Begins Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh , and Director of the Industrial Museum of that city . Dr . Wilson was in no small degree the originator of that museum ; he gave to it his heart , his genius , and his hopes of success and fame . Six years ago he was appointed to both offices , and it was at that period that tho
long delayed project of establishing an industrial museum for Scotland in Edinburgh was first seriously contemplated by government . A long strife succeeded to the first idea of founding this institution , and it has only very recently been put on a ground for commencing real operations . Besides the lives of Eeid and Cavendish , Dr . AVilson bad written an " Elementary Treatise on Chemistry , " " Eesearches in Colour Blindness , " and "The Five Gateways of Knowledge . " Ho was born in
Edinburgh in ISIS . The world has lost in him—at the early ago of forty-one—a good man and a most worthy servant of science . Dr . Dorau is writing " Lives of tho Princes of AA ' ales , " to be published by Mr . Bentley early next year . Tho sketch of each Prince of AValcs will terminate with his accession to the throne , when such has been the ease .
Several public bodies and societies connected with the highlands have memorialised the Scotch Universities' Commissioners to take tho necessary steps for instituting and endowing Celtic professorships in somo or all of the Scotch universities , Mr . AV . M . Thackeray will deliver a lecture to members of the Bury Athenreum , Suffolk , ou " Humour and Charity , " early in the ensuing year .
The Critic announces that Mr . Josiah Parkos , the father of Miss Partes , whoso strenuous advocacy of the rights and wants of her sex has attracted general attention , is about to publish a volume on the authorship of Junius . Mr . Parkos is the first of the Junius commentators who has managed to get something out of tbo Francis family , aud thtit the new facts and documents which his book will contain will add much
additional strength to the case iu favour of Sir Phili p . Tho same journal says that the Messrs . Longman are preparing fur immeiliate publication , in shilling parts , the well known family Shakespeare , edited by Thomas Bawdier ; tho first part will appear next week . Tho work will be illustrated with tbivty-six vignettes , engraved on wood , from original designs by G . Cooke , n . A ., E , Cooke , If , Howard , R . A .. H . Singleton
R . Smirke , R . A ., T . Stothard , R . A ., H . Thomson , R . A ., R . AVcstall , R . A ., R . AVordforde , R . A . Miss Muloch is about to give to the world a volume of poems , to be published by Messrs . Hurst and Blackett . Professor Blackie , of Edinburgh , has a volume of " Lyrical Poems" in the press , to be published by Messrs . Sutherland and Knox . Professor
Blackie is the author of " Student Songs of Germany , " contributed to Tail ' s Magazine many years ago , and a more recent poetical translation of iEschylus . Literature in Paris is quite as mueh influenced by fashion as are ladies' dresses . Since the success of " Fanny " a variety of romances have been published , which go under the general title of " line Etude de Famine . " M . E . Gourdon has just presented a volume of this class ,
called " Louise . " Tho grave liistorian of the " History of the Congress of Paris " has written a book , which is attracting much attention . The new organisation of the Theatre Framjais is said to be deeided on . The author ' s portion of tbo gross receipts is to be fifteen per cent . If one piece occupy the whole evening , as is frequently the case , the dramatist has that per contage to himself ; when more than one is played the authors divide the amount among them . Writers of two plays of
equal length will got seven and a half per cent , each , and so on , according to the number of acts in each production . The lowest portion is three per cent . Thus , when three pieces are played—one of four or five , another of three , and a third of one act—the author of the first will take seven per cent ., of tbe second five , and of the third three per cent . A course of lectures is in progress of delivery at the science and art department of the South Kensington Museum . Three Lectures " On
the Budrum Sculptures in the British Museum , and their relation to Architecture , " by Mr . Newton ; " On the Chemistry of Food , " by Dr . Lankoster ; and another " On the Preparation of Food . " On tho 5 th of December the Eev . AV . H . Brookfield will lecture " On Lessening the
Irksomeness of Instruction . " On the 12 th , Mr . Harry Chester will tell the public " How to set about the Building of a School . " And on tho 19 th Dr . G . Kinkel will discourse " On the Progress of Seeing . " Prince Luoien Bonaparte , the well known philologist , has printed , for private circulation , two more specimens of English dialects as spoken in the present year . One specimen is in the Cornish dialect , —the other is in that of Dorset . Tbe latter is the more droll and curious . For each
specimen the Song of Solomon has been chosen . The Photographic News says that , while M . Bortseh exhibits prints of animalcuho enormously magnified , M . A . AVagnor exerts his ability in an opposite direction : he exhibits microscopic pictures of objects which are really astonishing . One of these is a reduced photograph of the proclamation of the Emperor of the French to the French people at the outbreak of the last war . This proclamation contains 2649 letters , all of
which can bo distinctly read with tho aid of a suitable magnifying power , although they are included within a space of two millemetres square . M . Testud do Beauregard is said to have obtained photographs in natural colours of flowers by simple exposure to the light ; for example , roses , pale violet , and green , produced without the aid of the eolourer . The Council of the Eoyal Society has awarded tlie Copley medal for tbe year to Professor AAllhelm Edward AVeber , of Gottiiigon , for
researches m electricity , magnetism , acoustics , & e . One of the Eoyal niedals has been bestowed upon Mr . George Bcntb ' am , for contributions to Systematic and Descriptive Botany ; and the other Eoyal medal lo Mr . Arthur Cayley , for his Mathematical Papers , published in the Philosophical Transactions . The Eo 3 'al Academicians are called together on the 5 th of December to consider the question of an increase in the number of Associates .
The discussion will come on at the instance of Mr . Cope . The Alhenceimi says , " A good feeling prevails in tho Academy towards the opening ; and the adoption of Mr . Cope ' s reform would go far to replace the Academy in public and parliamentary confidence . It would be the first step in its elevation to the rank of a National Academy . Some members , we hear , express opinions in favour of abolishing the Associatcship altogether ; though , probably , the adoption of a law of unlimited
Associateships would moot this view . The true theory seems to bo that of the Universities aud the Inns of Court . Every artist should have the right to an association with tho Academy ou establishing his artistic claim . " The death of Mr . Frank Stone , A . E . A ., leaves the very unusual number of four vacancies in tbe Academy—one Academician iu place of James AA ard—three places in tbe Associatcshi p , vice Messrs . John Phillip , Sydney Smirke , and Frank Stone . Mr . Frank Stone ' s death took place last week very suddenly , from
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this punishment . ' They then placed one of the heated bars into his two hands ; and he continued with the same calmness : ' This also is just ; these hands have given the waters of baptism , and ought to be burned with fire . I accept with joy these explanations of my past errors . May God have mercy upon mo ! ' The torture was continued . They bound round his arms hemp steeped in tar , and set fire to it ; but tbe constancy of the old man did not fail him . He intoned the sacred psalms of Zionall the hytes joined in chorus . The Popesseeing that
; neop , nothing could shake the firmness of the old man , ordered the executioners to cast him upon the pyre ; at that instant the flames enveloped him as with a mantle of glory , one might have said that the soul of the martyr was wrapped in its heavenly robes to appear before the throne of Jehovah . "
His fate did not frighten his coreligionists ; they cried out with one accord , "Let us join the soul of Rabbi Abraham in eternity ;" and without awaiting the executioners , men , women , and children , cast themselves into the flames , invoking the name of the Gocl of Israel . Nearly one hundred persons perished thus , ancl it required armed force to prevent others following their example . Some were sent to Siberiaothers to the fortress of Riga ; the rest were
, compelled to embrace Christianity , but continued to exercise the Hebrew religion clandestinely . Of this the government was not ignorant , but prudently closed its eyes . The author relates that , when in 1814 the Emperor Alexander gave toleration to fifty-two sects , the SchobataiksvfCTC among the number , and they immediately went forth to dispose of their bosniches ( images of gold and silver ) , which until then they hacl ostensibly made use of .
Having drunk quite deep enough from this well of horrors , we take leave of Javan Metsoula's work , which is of great interest , and affords another chapter towards that huge mountain of records which perpetuate the sufferings of the conscientious ancl the fanatic in the cause of religion .
NOTES ON LITEEATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART . THE Lincoln Times says : — " It is not improbable that Newstead Abbey , the seat of the late Colonel AVildmau , and formerly the residence of Lord Byron , with its magnificent domain , will shortly pass into the hands of Mr . Charles Soely , of Heighuigton Hall , who , wo are informed , is in treat y for this interesting property . " Tho price paid for the
property by the late owner is said to have been £ 100 , 000 . Dr . George Wilson , the biographer of Reid and Cavendish , is just dead . Dr . AVilson was the first Begins Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh , and Director of the Industrial Museum of that city . Dr . Wilson was in no small degree the originator of that museum ; he gave to it his heart , his genius , and his hopes of success and fame . Six years ago he was appointed to both offices , and it was at that period that tho
long delayed project of establishing an industrial museum for Scotland in Edinburgh was first seriously contemplated by government . A long strife succeeded to the first idea of founding this institution , and it has only very recently been put on a ground for commencing real operations . Besides the lives of Eeid and Cavendish , Dr . AVilson bad written an " Elementary Treatise on Chemistry , " " Eesearches in Colour Blindness , " and "The Five Gateways of Knowledge . " Ho was born in
Edinburgh in ISIS . The world has lost in him—at the early ago of forty-one—a good man and a most worthy servant of science . Dr . Dorau is writing " Lives of tho Princes of AA ' ales , " to be published by Mr . Bentley early next year . Tho sketch of each Prince of AValcs will terminate with his accession to the throne , when such has been the ease .
Several public bodies and societies connected with the highlands have memorialised the Scotch Universities' Commissioners to take tho necessary steps for instituting and endowing Celtic professorships in somo or all of the Scotch universities , Mr . AV . M . Thackeray will deliver a lecture to members of the Bury Athenreum , Suffolk , ou " Humour and Charity , " early in the ensuing year .
The Critic announces that Mr . Josiah Parkos , the father of Miss Partes , whoso strenuous advocacy of the rights and wants of her sex has attracted general attention , is about to publish a volume on the authorship of Junius . Mr . Parkos is the first of the Junius commentators who has managed to get something out of tbo Francis family , aud thtit the new facts and documents which his book will contain will add much
additional strength to the case iu favour of Sir Phili p . Tho same journal says that the Messrs . Longman are preparing fur immeiliate publication , in shilling parts , the well known family Shakespeare , edited by Thomas Bawdier ; tho first part will appear next week . Tho work will be illustrated with tbivty-six vignettes , engraved on wood , from original designs by G . Cooke , n . A ., E , Cooke , If , Howard , R . A .. H . Singleton
R . Smirke , R . A ., T . Stothard , R . A ., H . Thomson , R . A ., R . AVcstall , R . A ., R . AVordforde , R . A . Miss Muloch is about to give to the world a volume of poems , to be published by Messrs . Hurst and Blackett . Professor Blackie , of Edinburgh , has a volume of " Lyrical Poems" in the press , to be published by Messrs . Sutherland and Knox . Professor
Blackie is the author of " Student Songs of Germany , " contributed to Tail ' s Magazine many years ago , and a more recent poetical translation of iEschylus . Literature in Paris is quite as mueh influenced by fashion as are ladies' dresses . Since the success of " Fanny " a variety of romances have been published , which go under the general title of " line Etude de Famine . " M . E . Gourdon has just presented a volume of this class ,
called " Louise . " Tho grave liistorian of the " History of the Congress of Paris " has written a book , which is attracting much attention . The new organisation of the Theatre Framjais is said to be deeided on . The author ' s portion of tbo gross receipts is to be fifteen per cent . If one piece occupy the whole evening , as is frequently the case , the dramatist has that per contage to himself ; when more than one is played the authors divide the amount among them . Writers of two plays of
equal length will got seven and a half per cent , each , and so on , according to the number of acts in each production . The lowest portion is three per cent . Thus , when three pieces are played—one of four or five , another of three , and a third of one act—the author of the first will take seven per cent ., of tbe second five , and of the third three per cent . A course of lectures is in progress of delivery at the science and art department of the South Kensington Museum . Three Lectures " On
the Budrum Sculptures in the British Museum , and their relation to Architecture , " by Mr . Newton ; " On the Chemistry of Food , " by Dr . Lankoster ; and another " On the Preparation of Food . " On tho 5 th of December the Eev . AV . H . Brookfield will lecture " On Lessening the
Irksomeness of Instruction . " On the 12 th , Mr . Harry Chester will tell the public " How to set about the Building of a School . " And on tho 19 th Dr . G . Kinkel will discourse " On the Progress of Seeing . " Prince Luoien Bonaparte , the well known philologist , has printed , for private circulation , two more specimens of English dialects as spoken in the present year . One specimen is in the Cornish dialect , —the other is in that of Dorset . Tbe latter is the more droll and curious . For each
specimen the Song of Solomon has been chosen . The Photographic News says that , while M . Bortseh exhibits prints of animalcuho enormously magnified , M . A . AVagnor exerts his ability in an opposite direction : he exhibits microscopic pictures of objects which are really astonishing . One of these is a reduced photograph of the proclamation of the Emperor of the French to the French people at the outbreak of the last war . This proclamation contains 2649 letters , all of
which can bo distinctly read with tho aid of a suitable magnifying power , although they are included within a space of two millemetres square . M . Testud do Beauregard is said to have obtained photographs in natural colours of flowers by simple exposure to the light ; for example , roses , pale violet , and green , produced without the aid of the eolourer . The Council of the Eoyal Society has awarded tlie Copley medal for tbe year to Professor AAllhelm Edward AVeber , of Gottiiigon , for
researches m electricity , magnetism , acoustics , & e . One of the Eoyal niedals has been bestowed upon Mr . George Bcntb ' am , for contributions to Systematic and Descriptive Botany ; and the other Eoyal medal lo Mr . Arthur Cayley , for his Mathematical Papers , published in the Philosophical Transactions . The Eo 3 'al Academicians are called together on the 5 th of December to consider the question of an increase in the number of Associates .
The discussion will come on at the instance of Mr . Cope . The Alhenceimi says , " A good feeling prevails in tho Academy towards the opening ; and the adoption of Mr . Cope ' s reform would go far to replace the Academy in public and parliamentary confidence . It would be the first step in its elevation to the rank of a National Academy . Some members , we hear , express opinions in favour of abolishing the Associatcship altogether ; though , probably , the adoption of a law of unlimited
Associateships would moot this view . The true theory seems to bo that of the Universities aud the Inns of Court . Every artist should have the right to an association with tho Academy ou establishing his artistic claim . " The death of Mr . Frank Stone , A . E . A ., leaves the very unusual number of four vacancies in tbe Academy—one Academician iu place of James AA ard—three places in tbe Associatcshi p , vice Messrs . John Phillip , Sydney Smirke , and Frank Stone . Mr . Frank Stone ' s death took place last week very suddenly , from