Putnam's Monthly Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... and yet, in spite of the long, bare neck, the outhreak of linen between the upper and nether garments, and the brief pigtail behind, he had the manners of a gentleman. He was said to have acted at more severe scenes of hard drinking than any man living. "Commonplace topers thought drinking a pleasure, but with Hermaud it was a virtue. He expressed a sincere respect for it, a profound moral approbation, and a serious compassion for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it, with due contempt for those who could, but did not." His regards, in this respect, were shown once by a charge, in the case of a young man who bad hastily killed his companion in a drunken frolic, and whom the other judges were inclined to treat leniently because he bad been over excited at the time of the act. Hermand took quite an opposite view; he said: " We are told that there was no malice, and that the prisoner was iu liquor He was drunk; and yet he murdered the very man who had been drinking with him They bad been carousing the whole night, and yet he stabbed him Good God, my lairds, if he will do this when he's drunk, what will he not do when he's sober?" In spite of his claret and punch every night. Hermand lived to be over eighty-five. The heads of those old Scotchmen have been among the most astonishing things in history. A portion of Lord Cockburn's recollections will be only interesting to the residents in and about Edinburgh; but the greater part will be found attractive to the generality of readera.--Mr. George Tucker has written a History of the United States, in four volumes, of which the first volume has just appeared from the press of Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. It embraces the period from the colonization of the country to the admini...