KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL; FOR INTER-COMMUNICATIONS ON NATURAL HISTORY, POPULAR SCIENCE, AND THINGS IN GENERAL. CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM KIDD, OF HAMMERSMITH. VOLUME V. A DEEP mysterious SYMPATHY doth bind R. NICOL. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR WILLIAM KIDD, BY AND PROCURABLE, BY ORDER, OF ALL BOOKBELLERS. Glasgow, John M'LEOD, 66, ARGYLE STREET. M. DCCC. LIV. ANOTHER HALF-YEAR has very quickly passed away. AGAiN are we called upon to offer a few brief observations whilst issuing this our FIFTH VOLUME. Since our last Preface was penned, the whole aspect of affairs has undergone a change. Magic itself could not have worked a greater change. War has usurped the place of Peace. The world is universally disturbed. Very many of our excellent friends have been called away by duty” to a Foreign land. The inhabitants of the earth are running hither and thither in a state of restlessness. Literature, too, has quite altered its healthy tone. The better class of our Cheap Periodicals is, we are told, fast dwindling down in sale to zero. Two of them, in self-defence, have actually been compelled to commence a NEW NOVEL in their columns. These," written to order," are doled out in weekly installments ! There is no denying the fact, that public taste now inclines towards the vilest and cheapest trash. Countless Shilling Volumes, tricked out in grotesque green covers to attract the eye, are the order of the day,—their contents, for the most part, injurious in the highest degree. These are devoured by young and old; master and mistress, man-servant and maid-servant. ALL swallow greedily the mental poison prepared for them. Wholesome food for “the mind” is not wanted. It is out of fashion. 92 At this peculiar crisis, prudence bids us (for the present) back out of the field. The race is too “fast” a one for our breath to keep up with. The “ odds being against us, we regard our mission as ended. We retire from the course with an empty pocket. That might be expected (for we have fought bravely to the very last); but as an equivalent, we preserve, intact, a tender heart and an honest conscience. We have labored hard to do good ; and we scarcely need remark that philanthropic pursuits are not remunerative." What our labors have been for the last few years (and our heavy loss by the venture), stand recorded in our FIVE VOLUMES. But such a phalanx of honorable men and women have we had as supporters, as have rarely fallen to the lot of any one public man. We acknowledge it with thankfulness, and speak of it with pardonable pride. KIDD's JOURNAL owes little indeed of its popularity to the Editor. It is to the Contributors that all praise is justly due. By their noble sentiments—as nobly and honestly expressed, they have given birth to a standard work,-imperishable in interest, and one which has done good to an incalculable extent both at home and abroad. Better than all,—it has "won," not forced its way to the hearts of the people. May OUR JOURNAL long continue to extend its genial influences (for we sincerely believe it will never die); and may'ages yet unborn “take a leaf out of Our Book,"—for which, in after time, they may feel inclined to grant us their blessing! It is “something” to live for posterity. WILLIAM KIDD. New ROAD, HAMMERSMITH, July 1st, 1854. Affection of a Mother, 128 Crystal Palace, The, at Sydenham, 52, 258, 316, Ancient Verulam-a Pleasure Trip, 307 Daisy, The, 109 Death in the Pot!" 366 Devonshire, Beauties of, 6, 74, 131, 184, 198 Ardent Spirits,-England's Curse, 187, 247 Artificial Flower Making, 188 Mild Climate of, 187 Astounding Facts in Nature, 260 Dog, The, 41, 43, 103, 154, 171, 237, 298, 356 Atmosphere, Nature of the, 256 Domestic Duties, -not beneath a Woman's no- Auto-Biography of a Dog, 41, 103, 171, 237, 298, tice, 248 Dormouse, The, 191 Elephant, The, 313 England, Notes on, by an American, 143 English Churches and English Women, 250 Biblical Curiosities, 375 English Women and English Landscapes, 252 -Our Spring Visitors and their Food, 209 Analysis of Society, An, 204; Auction, An, 113; Brain, The Human, 125, 320 Babies and their Smiles, 349; Bright Side of Nature, The, 193; Ceylon, Recollections of, 12; Butterflies of the Valley of the Amazon, 122 Colney Hatch, 33; Destiny, Fate, and Conduct, 129; Dignity and Duty, 9; "Doctors' Com- 135; Fashion's Looking Glass, 204; Cant and Hypocrisy, 257, 258, 268, 316 Friendship, 119, 314; God made the Country, and Inhumanity, 273; Infidelity, 320; Inno- cence, Guilt, and Suspicion, 257; "Laugh and Grow Fat !” 208 ; Little Kindnesses, 17; Living and the Dead, The, 300; Love Lane, 263 ; Man and his Food, 141; Man and his Idol, Gold, 338 ; Meditation and Books, 353 ; Natural History, On the Study of, 234 ; Our Chesnut,-Notes on the Edible, 137 Early Flowers, 97, 163, 225; Our Wild Flowers, 291; Our Mirror of the Months, 35, 105, 174, 229, 293, 358; Philosophy, The, of Common Sympathy of, 328 Life, 370; Plurality of Worlds, The, 324; Profound Talkers, 336; Prose and Poetry, 271; 321 ; Tongue, The Human, 72; “The Man for Climbing Plants of South America, The, 255 305; Thoughts on the Ivy, 67; Truthi · me !" |
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