The Army and Navy Magazine - v. 6 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 357 IJloralt of tjje Reeruiting (Question. By J. H. Lawbence-akcheb. The Governing Class, and not alone in England, has viewed with satisfaction—tempere... more »d, however, with that " cast of thought" which wisely checks the otherwise over-sanguine—the activity recently displayed by the great and good, the rich and the intellectual, the enterprising and the politic, in casting the golden apples of Hippomenes before the merciless and encroaching Atalanta, who, in these latter days, is known to us, as "Mary Anne." Every reasonable concession has been, from time to time, made to the impulsive and unwise masses in Europe ; while, even in Asia, we are already contemplating the early effects of a premature (if, indeed, ever possible with regard to our own safety) experiment in the same direction. Magnificent public entertainments invite, at small cost, the lovers of sensuous pleasures to forget homely cares, and the periodic visit of the urgent collectors of revenue. Marvellous exhibitions of Art and Science charm those, in easier circumstances, who have had leisure to develop more intellectual tastes. Living chess-men, with military precision, have made their startling moves, at the word of command, on the chequered floor of "the Circus." Pageantries innumerable draw the residuum from their dens, to view the visible presentment of that greatness and opulence of which they are invited to regard themselves as an integral part; and the latest, and, perhaps, the most really important idea, taking the form of an International Fisheries Exhibition, touches a vital question, and, appropriately under the warm and personal auspices of the great " Sea Queen " of the age, reveals the neglected harvest of the sea, as the natural source of food supply, to an insular people, at present painfully de...« less