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On two occasions, already, some Mice, whom I have made a vow to respect since the bill passed by your august parliament, have taken me to Colburn's, where, observing old ladies, spinsters of uncertain years, and even young married women, correcting proofs, I have asked myself why, having claws, I should not make use of them in a similar manner.
It appeared in Colburn's "New Monthly Magazine," and is, I think, a very pleasant, entertaining paper, worthy of its subject, and not unworthy of the pen of Charles Lamb. I take great pleasure in introducing the article to the readers of the "Atlantic." "Nought but a blank remains, a dead void space, A step of life that promised such a race." Dryden.
But while this tended to make the conversation less monotonous, it likewise tended to make the converser less popular. Cooper lost early by his bearing in English society much of the favor which he had won from his writings. To this we have positive evidence. It is specifically mentioned in the sketch of his life, which along with his portrait appeared in 1831 in Colburn's "New Monthly Magazine."
Even under these circumstances Martha Pierson would probably have consented to unite her fate with Adam Colburn's, and, secure of the bliss of mutual love, would patiently have awaited the less important gifts of Fortune. But Adam, being of a calm and cautious character, was loth to relinquish the advantages which a single man possesses for raising himself in the world.
"Yes, I do," said 'Lena, with a good deal of spirit. "Olney's geography is a description of the earth; Colburn's arithmetic is the science of numbers: Smith's grammar teaches us how to speak correctly." "Why don't you do it then," asked her uncle. "Do what?" said 'Lena, and her uncle continued, "Why don't you make some use of your boasted knowledge of grammar?
An' Seth Colburn's buried in it. He'd laugh if he knew. But Jarrow'll take me some day, an' when he does, I'll go back to Yarmouth an' build a big house, all snug an' shipshape, with a piazza like the quarter-deck of a frigate, an' a garden with petunias, an' an' have good soup for supper. I fed my crew better'n Prayerful Jones does, an' I tell him so every day.
Have the goodness to send copies and advertisements, as early as possible, to each of the undermentioned periodicals. "'Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. "'Bentley's Magazine. "'Hood's Magazine. "'Jerrold's Shilling Magazine. "'Blackwood's Magazine. "'The Edinburgh Review. "'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. "'The Dublin University Magazine. "Also to the 'Daily News' and to the 'Britannia' papers.
An account of this disaster, said to be that of an eye-witness, is to be found in Colburn's United Service Journal, 1846, part i. This motto was subsequently adopted by Nelson, when arms were assigned to him as a Knight of the Bath, in May, 1797. That is, apparently, from detached service, and ordered to the main fleet.
I went to the district school here, and studied reading, spelling and Colburn's mental arithmetic, which I mastered. It began very easy "How many thumbs on your right hand?" "How many on your left?" "How many altogether?" but it grew harder further on. Uncle took employment at anything he could find to do. Chopping was his principal occupation.
Colburn's article of 1864 seems to have been of some importance to Mushet, who, in the prospectus of the Titanic Steel and Iron Company, Ltd., issued soon after, brazenly asserted that, "by the process of Mr. Mushet especially when in combination with the Bessemer process, steel as good as Swedish steel" would be produced at £6 per ton.
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