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Review Of New Publications.
1 A recent circumstance , with which the public is well acquainted , seems to call for this Vindication , and even ( painful as it is ) to impose the measure upon me as a solemn duty , and obligation . I allude to the public statement , made by my son . The world to which he has appealed , will judge and pronounce upon the truth of the allegations , and the weight of the testimonies , which he has laid before them . I beg to assure the public that the refutation ' of Mr . Malone's book shall be brought forward with all possible speed ; in
which , whether the papers imputed to Shakspear are genuine or not , it will be clearly shewn , that he embarked in this enquiry as utterly destitute of the information of a p hilologist , and the acumen of a Critic , as it will , by his gross and repeated personalities , be manifested , that his selfish and interested views have made him throughout lose sig ht of the manners of a gentleman . ' Mr . Ireland , in the course of his Vindication , relates every fact as it occurredand we are convincedfrom the documents he has producedthat he
, , , is perfectly innocent of ' the charge either of deception or duplicity ; and that if the world have been deceived as to the authenticity of the MSS . Mr . Ireland has been deceived also . This pamphlet being only the introduction to a greater work in reply to Mr . Malone , does not enter into any enquiry as to the internal evidence of the papers . Mr . Ireland , however , animadverts in a very proper and spirited manner on the scurrility contained in the " Inquiry" of Mr . Maloneand the labours of the other pseudo-critics . After summing up
, the evidence in his own favour , to clear up his character and integrity , he proceeds to state what the further continuation of the work will be directed to . ' The other part of this work will be allotted to an investigation of the critical attacks , that have been directed against the' papers , hi \ vhich I trust that Mr . Malone will be completely refuted . Perhaps it might be expefted of me , that I should advert to the , other antagonists , who have appeared in
the field of the controversy . Of the first of these publications , entitled , " A Letter to George Steevens , Esq . containing a Critical examination , ' . ' & c . & c . as it has been abundantly refuted in a very able pamphlet , entitled , "A Comparative Review of the opinion , ' . ' & c . & c . I shall say nothing further . One Waldron likewise , has waded into the controversy , a bad aEtov and a worse critic . These are men , on whom I shall not animadvert .- They who mistake their vanity for their capacity , and suppose that they are qualined to
perform what they have presumption to attempt , are a tribe , on whom admonition will be wasted , and rebuke will be superfluous . ' But I have confined my reasoning to Mr . Malone ; because , as he is known to the world by what may be emphatically called his literary labours on other ; occasions , so has he distinguished himself by the bulk of his criticisms on . , this . What Dr . Warburton said of poor Theobald , he would have said with infinitely more justice of this critic : " That what he read he could transcribe ;
but as what he thought , if ever he did . think , he could but ill express , so he , read on ; and by that means got a character of learning , without risquing the imputation of wanting a better talent- " In the part , however , which he has taken in this controversy , he lias brought the only literary quality he has , that of patient , and laborious research , into suspicion . Whether it be the instinctive property of dulness to be dark , 'and bewildered , in proportion to the efforts it makesjo be briht and icuousor that though he has much
g persp , reading , he has not enough for the office he has arrogated , it is certain that his book abounds with so many blunders , and overflows with so much presumption , that it seems a sort of mixed animal , engendered between a perT ' severing dulness on one side , and an envious mind on the other . ' It I succeed in proving what I have asserted , I shall do a . very essential service to literature itself . I shall have ridded the literary world of a sort
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Review Of New Publications.
1 A recent circumstance , with which the public is well acquainted , seems to call for this Vindication , and even ( painful as it is ) to impose the measure upon me as a solemn duty , and obligation . I allude to the public statement , made by my son . The world to which he has appealed , will judge and pronounce upon the truth of the allegations , and the weight of the testimonies , which he has laid before them . I beg to assure the public that the refutation ' of Mr . Malone's book shall be brought forward with all possible speed ; in
which , whether the papers imputed to Shakspear are genuine or not , it will be clearly shewn , that he embarked in this enquiry as utterly destitute of the information of a p hilologist , and the acumen of a Critic , as it will , by his gross and repeated personalities , be manifested , that his selfish and interested views have made him throughout lose sig ht of the manners of a gentleman . ' Mr . Ireland , in the course of his Vindication , relates every fact as it occurredand we are convincedfrom the documents he has producedthat he
, , , is perfectly innocent of ' the charge either of deception or duplicity ; and that if the world have been deceived as to the authenticity of the MSS . Mr . Ireland has been deceived also . This pamphlet being only the introduction to a greater work in reply to Mr . Malone , does not enter into any enquiry as to the internal evidence of the papers . Mr . Ireland , however , animadverts in a very proper and spirited manner on the scurrility contained in the " Inquiry" of Mr . Maloneand the labours of the other pseudo-critics . After summing up
, the evidence in his own favour , to clear up his character and integrity , he proceeds to state what the further continuation of the work will be directed to . ' The other part of this work will be allotted to an investigation of the critical attacks , that have been directed against the' papers , hi \ vhich I trust that Mr . Malone will be completely refuted . Perhaps it might be expefted of me , that I should advert to the , other antagonists , who have appeared in
the field of the controversy . Of the first of these publications , entitled , " A Letter to George Steevens , Esq . containing a Critical examination , ' . ' & c . & c . as it has been abundantly refuted in a very able pamphlet , entitled , "A Comparative Review of the opinion , ' . ' & c . & c . I shall say nothing further . One Waldron likewise , has waded into the controversy , a bad aEtov and a worse critic . These are men , on whom I shall not animadvert .- They who mistake their vanity for their capacity , and suppose that they are qualined to
perform what they have presumption to attempt , are a tribe , on whom admonition will be wasted , and rebuke will be superfluous . ' But I have confined my reasoning to Mr . Malone ; because , as he is known to the world by what may be emphatically called his literary labours on other ; occasions , so has he distinguished himself by the bulk of his criticisms on . , this . What Dr . Warburton said of poor Theobald , he would have said with infinitely more justice of this critic : " That what he read he could transcribe ;
but as what he thought , if ever he did . think , he could but ill express , so he , read on ; and by that means got a character of learning , without risquing the imputation of wanting a better talent- " In the part , however , which he has taken in this controversy , he lias brought the only literary quality he has , that of patient , and laborious research , into suspicion . Whether it be the instinctive property of dulness to be dark , 'and bewildered , in proportion to the efforts it makesjo be briht and icuousor that though he has much
g persp , reading , he has not enough for the office he has arrogated , it is certain that his book abounds with so many blunders , and overflows with so much presumption , that it seems a sort of mixed animal , engendered between a perT ' severing dulness on one side , and an envious mind on the other . ' It I succeed in proving what I have asserted , I shall do a . very essential service to literature itself . I shall have ridded the literary world of a sort