reflect, that these good old fairy tales are the moal sapient and the most widely used teature in the world. There is no specs in which their voice is net heard.
*Little Blox and little Crow,
Little fronty Bukimo,'
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE MODERN CHILD. The Modern Child is really boring too good and pure to live. A generation of Paul Domboys, and Little Nella, and Misunderstoode, and Time, is fading like violets in the grass. This statement may surprise sneles and austa, also scheninis now them they are dear to little Japasuse tors, who find childry very much what
as they were to little Greeks, and brown But mathem children have always heen. toll a different tale, and thequestion arinasalt Exyphians who have been mannies little fachryuuge humings or is it merely grandmother, who were Lot fatocious or have children really becs gentimental for the many thousand yoOTE.
ruel old Indies, told us about Cinderella some mothers who are not vary sensible? and Tom-tit-tot, Now Toss-tit tot was a As a text for this sermon we may choose end. Were we any the worso, were car the words of Mrs Grau Innbel Colbran, of grandmother any the worse, was all New York City, US., who writes in a
humanity, as soon as it could invent, any periodical naured Babyhood. It seems the worse for Hop o ay Thumb, and Bed be a place wheroin ladies may road and Riding Hood? Not to know their histories is to be sadly ignorant, is to miss what all write nursery shop. Mrs Colbron donoun- denounces the delightful drama of My poopio, apparently, have relished in all most easily moved to laughter, are also; at Leeds, in ths. County cos Fairy talos, and, hear it, oh earth!
Punch.
Do you pretend, sage Mrs Cat-pantries sad agos-Daily News.
THE DECAY OF LAUGHTER (Spectator,)
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THE CHINA REVIEW. I weary journey hear the sound of laughter. Srap, and I wish others to know of it. If that be really true, we know not; but if have recommended the medisine to many it is, wo have heard no more aurious people in this district with great Loneft. PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY. indictment against a democratic people. My daughter, Mrs. Ware, living at York,
18 Recies, which was intended to meet It is true that there is nearly always, was onred of severe dyspepsia after every
1 tho wants of many students of Chinese aron in the best and Suest inssences other means hind failed. If by publishing One of American humour, A certain hard this statement others may bo bonefited Iaused by the discontinuance of Netes and meas and crasity of intention, a curtail shall be very glad, and I hereby give per-series on China and Japan, has reached its bitterness and what of light-hearted and lesion to the proprietors of Soigel's Syrup Nineteenth Volume The Reviste discumen spontaneous gaiety; and it may well be in are say as they may think fit of this those topios which are uppermost in the Far East and that the national charoster which produces testimonial, and I make this soloman de-minds of students of the it is incapable of purely gay and mirthful skration conscientiously believing the same Ahout which every intelligent person con aughter. How long will it be before we to be true. By virtue of the Provisions neuted with China or Japan in desirens of to a nationally incapatito of laughter of the Satutory Declaration Act, 1866. uiring trustworthy information. It in The Franch, who have the reputation of (Williams IV, 6. 62.)
cludes biany intercating Notos and original | BLACK SEA PORTS, ALEXANDRIA, Papors on the Arts, Bciones, Ethnology, being the most light-hearted people and the Declared before mo at
Tolklore, Geography, History, Literature, Mythology, Natural History, Antiquities, hoart, the loast democratic people in Europe It would be intereating to inquire which
and Social Manners and Customa, oto, etc.,. brus, that a child does not understand that
slaag amongst us at home is the most prone
of China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, and the Far East generally. Bacostly a now de to laughter; and we imagine that the rauls ho ja being encouraged to laugh at contempt
parture has been taken, and the Reviews now of the law, theft, and murdor? Cer-
WEDNESDAY, the 13th January, of such an ao inquiry would effectually
gires papera on Tridu, Commerce, and tainly, wo assert that no child, not being i
1990, Ron, the Company's LB. Descriptive notes of Travel by well-known DJEMNAH, Comman laut BONNEFOY, Mr James Payn, in the cotamos of lust disprove the theory that the decay of congenital imbecile, ever dreams of drawing
Mr. William Morland, the husband of writers. It was thought that by extending with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, such a moral. As to Bondlerising Mr week's bistrated London News, fears that laughter is dus only to a gr wing ecusa of its vulgarity. The labouring class, ospeci We may have other it is quls too gertain that people laugh ke all the agricultural, laughs but little. It this lady, is a farmer, well known nhd the scope of the icin in this direction, and CARGO, will leave this fort for the Punch, nonaenoi puppet plays. Tha Marionettes of M. Mua- to-day as they used to do, and at the
y be argest that the labouring class has highly respected. Forbes lived on bis pre- the Bagazine would be madentore generally abore piacos.
bon apecle will be registered for, at a ball this, Company a 6.6 rice Boucher act Shakespeare (who is por-ame time no ho deplores the fact, pro-
The Rovion department receives special haps too dangerous an author), but that is lesson his inability to account for it. Of not much reason for laughter. Toncertsin sent farm st Throst Nest, Haya Park, useful
He was present at Leads when the attention, and endeavours Kfc minde to London as well as for Marseilles, and a no reason for presenting Mr. Punch as a the two suggestions that he makes towards extent that is true, hat even when it is seventeen years, and in the district all his
with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPROIE converted character. After Mr Punch, the solution of the problem, neither some ppiest and manat content, its pleasure does life. Fairy tales come in for condemnatios. Ato us to be sulicient by ilesi! by account not take a mirthful tarn. George Eliot, who foregoing declaration by his wife was read, present a careful and concise record of opsed in transit through Marsailles for the STUTTGART, Cap W, V SOGAN
know the English pasancey well, drew and roached for its accuracy mi truths. Literature ou Chin ote, and to give Principal places of Europe.
Shipping Orders will be granted til careful mother searched for hours ataong for so dismal a charge, though we have no strikingly faithful and curious picturo ci Mrs. Marknd'e malady, indigestion and critiques embodying sketches of the Most Noon. the beat hook shops nad could not find a doubt that both are factors in it. The their hours of leisure and enjoyment in the dyspepsia, 16 suficiently common and fatal recent works on such topics. Authors and
Carge will be resolved on board until single volume worthy to be carried home idas of the vulgarity of laughter is neither opening chaptera of Silas Marner. Thoy to make it a duty to give the widest publi. Publishers are requested to forward works. for bor ourly prig. 'Death, cruelty, sulfur- strong enough nor autfciently widely dis ing of man and beaat were on every page, seminated to have any read influence in delight in a dogged argument; they dolight city to any remedy that will cure it. Hences Editor, China Review, care if China. Spain and Parcels antil 3 on
The Noter and Queries are still continued and the theme of every talo. Procisoly gnenching the natural expression of with. also in a dry and not very charitable kind our meation of the above este in connection Mail Office."
He had the innate sadness and dulneas of droof hasteur; but their delight never finds ex-with the work of the society of which His
and for an important means of obtaining Take the case of Mr. Blue Board.
Bracy are probably mach more powerful pression in laughter, because it contains a Eoyal Highness is Fresident.
from and diffusing among students know- a room full of jagalated wives, aud was an-
element of gaily or mirth. factors, in that the undeniable growth of that the tendency to laugh will be found to
ledge an obscure points. xious to add to the lat. Fortunately, D dragoon and a mousquetaire came up, per- democratic idose amarget us most inse
and not as we descend. We would gladly haps Porthos himeelf, and they ran Mr. brought about a corros, anding decrease of be stronger as we ascend the social scale,
Actual
believe that it is a fear of vulgarity that Blue Beard through the body. It is a andwirth that provokes to laughter. tale of depravity in high placet, but is it laughter, according to some people, in sredible that any child was ever one provoked by a sudden anse of inconstrains that expression of emotion; but of the emotion itself thau a wish to repres pong the worse for it? Perhape Mrs.gruity: w laugh when we are in cannot but think it is rather the absence Colbron
Bor childhood was Bolero mod or narrounded by solomaty, haunted and embittered by the wolf in at the ezdden istrasion of a gay figura arit, that is responsible for the silence that seems to have fallen upon us. Of course Red Riding Brod.' She should have ridiculous idea, just ot, when wo are
there is a class of people which reprom are provoked to
its hughter as it represses every other been brought up on the vorton, pro mirthful mood, we baby the older, in which the wolf is killed langbtor again by a like intrusion of some-
natural movement, from fear of being and cut up, and out jump little Red Rid.thing grave and solemn. We seem but thought valgas; bus that class, we sincere- ing Hood and her grandmother as well and rarely in a mirthful wood to-day, and the joly as over. Thus Red Riding Hood is sudden intracion of solemnity comes upony hope, is not a very unmerous one. And, an the other hand, there is a form of obviously the dawn, and the wolf in anus with no sense of incongruity or surprise.
We are generally in a solemn mood, but laughter which is vulgar in the worst eclipse, and so on. Did the Sleeping Beauty frighten West Calbront Was she even so, the intrusion of what ia fudis quase the empty laugh which bemys vacant mind—but that, too, does the afraid of pricking her finger with a spindle does not move us to laughter; we are more
not deserve consideration way more than Did she shudder at the Royal grandmother often moved to stone it than to laugh at it.
does the laughter of apes or imbeciles. laugh Certain wbo orders the children to be coked d Why is it that we canno
But why, then, is it that the emotion Ance Kobert! Then there is 'op' o' myly it is not because we deem the exercise a Thumb. That Odysseus of childhood vulgar or a degrading one. We want to hic finds its expression in laughter bas caused the Ogre to kill his own daughters. laugh; we long for something that may deserted us? One can understand that the child should gradually loss the imputes to A healthy child wastes no spopadly on surprisa us into laughter; we go to bur these victims, They were all young Ogres lesques and pantomimes with that end in laugh as it grows into a man; but one and botter out of the way. Jack the view, wlstery wide-eyed at every conniy would be loth to believe that the world is Giant Killer is u her, with a healthy able folly, cuy to return with an almost going through the same process. And yet child; he is not on the side of the fiants, sching sinne of a want that is still unfal- it is said that the Negroes and other primi. tive races the most unrestrained in he does not object to capital punishment filled, and su intensity of satisfied their laughter and that the Chinese, the when it is richly deserved. There is ug What melsachely sight is the story in which the stepmother is ated with sudionce it a comic play here and thereoai auoient civilisation in the world, can
It is positively a spasmcdic effort towards laughter dica hardly be provailed upon to smile. red-hot irou oboea
civilisation really stifles the norriment. of necessary to alter this conclusion, and say away in urdunto grin, but never au that the stepmother, a moat odious pureo, bonest, operinouthed roat of laughter in nation, the want of it has certain merits which have not yet been properly taken was made to stand its the corner, or was not allowed to have two helpings of padd
into account. Our gain in that direction is but a merry consulation for the legs of ing. Let us reflect, let oren mothers
que mirth and of the healthy exercise of laughter.
WOL.
all the heus0,
16
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I have sa fared ali my life from a weak stomacb, indigestion, and liver complaint. I was never properly well but always ailing and never seemed to gain strength. I bad a bad taste in the mouth and a strango sinking fooling at the pit of my stomach, I had always pain after eating, no matter how simple the food was. My appetite was poor and what littlo I ate did not seem to give me strength. I had great pain at the chest and sides and felt as if I was held or bound round my waist, I was toned troubled with sickness and very often found no ease until I vomited all the fool I bad!
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