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Review Of New Publications.
but are NOT THE WRONGS OF WOMAN . It would be as absurd to alledge , that because a Maria was first deceived , and then abused , by a Venables , that was a picture of the wrongs of women , a defect in political society ; as jjiat because George Barnwell was seduced and ruined by Millwood , that was a proof of the wrongs of men .
Hertxient Priory , a Novel , - _ . vols . jxmo . 7 s . Symonds , THIS Novel is a series of letters between three pairs of lovers , v .-hoall encounter many obstacles , combat many difficulties , and are finally triumphant-. Uncles and grandfathers unexpectedly give fortunes ; aunt , father , and mother , give consent , and the parties are married . A fourth pair is also joined . _ Some of the scenes and characters are not without a resemblance to those of other novels , on which we have had officially occasion to cast our eyes .
adeo sunt mitlla loquacem . Velassare -valcnt Fabium . The story is neither unnatural nor ill told : the language is tolerably correCt : many of the observations are just , and indeed obvious . The tendency is favourable to virtue . From the accurate description of dresses , the number of lords and ladies , the sprightly transitions from subjeft to subject , without the tedious formality of connection ; the completion of so many
marriages in so short a space , and the rapid vicissitudes of situation and fortune , not waiting the slow motions of probability , we conclude this to be the work of a female scribe . Constantinople , Ancient and Modern , ivith Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago , and to ihe Troad . By James Dallaway , M . B . F . S . A . late Chaplain and Physician of the British Embassy to the Porte . 4 * 0 . Price it . 11 s . 6 d . Cadell and Davies . THIS very elegant volume offers a rich banquet to the pan of classical taste , and must be particularly acceptable to genuine antiquaries . Our learned
author is exceedingly happy in description , and many beautiful landscapes might be extracted from this rich and well written work . The first seftion closes with a view of the writers who preceded the author in their accounts of the Levant ; and the second contains a description of Constantinople , from which we learn , that in the library of the seraglio ( inaccessible to christians ) one hundred and twenty of Constantino's MSS . in folio , ( chieflthe New Testament and commentaries upon it ) are preserved . Vast
y ^ numbers of Greek and Latin MSS . in the Oriental languages , are kept in this repository , without arrangement or catalogue . Of the six thousand inhabitants of the seraglio , about five hundred are women . _ ' The old story of the ladies standing in a row , and the Sultan throwing his handkerchief to his choice , is not true . ' ( p . zy . ) The third section describes the political system of the seraglio ; the office ofvisier ; revenues of the emperor ; finances and great offices of the state .
In the fourth section we are informed , that there were in Constantinople , before the great fire in 1782 , more than five hundred schools . Of the thirteen public libraries at Constantinople , none contain above two thousand volumes : these are all manuscripts , of which the value stems to depend chiefly on the beauty of the penmanship and the splendour of the illuminations . A plain unomamented folio costs from fifteen to twenty pounds , if well written . ' The Turks , ' says Mr . Dallaway , ' maybe called , nationally speaking , an however ill
illiterate people ; yet it is no less true , that a taste for literature , - directed by prejudice , is cultivated by many individuals . ' He thus speaks of a popular book . von . x . V
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Review Of New Publications.
but are NOT THE WRONGS OF WOMAN . It would be as absurd to alledge , that because a Maria was first deceived , and then abused , by a Venables , that was a picture of the wrongs of women , a defect in political society ; as jjiat because George Barnwell was seduced and ruined by Millwood , that was a proof of the wrongs of men .
Hertxient Priory , a Novel , - _ . vols . jxmo . 7 s . Symonds , THIS Novel is a series of letters between three pairs of lovers , v .-hoall encounter many obstacles , combat many difficulties , and are finally triumphant-. Uncles and grandfathers unexpectedly give fortunes ; aunt , father , and mother , give consent , and the parties are married . A fourth pair is also joined . _ Some of the scenes and characters are not without a resemblance to those of other novels , on which we have had officially occasion to cast our eyes .
adeo sunt mitlla loquacem . Velassare -valcnt Fabium . The story is neither unnatural nor ill told : the language is tolerably correCt : many of the observations are just , and indeed obvious . The tendency is favourable to virtue . From the accurate description of dresses , the number of lords and ladies , the sprightly transitions from subjeft to subject , without the tedious formality of connection ; the completion of so many
marriages in so short a space , and the rapid vicissitudes of situation and fortune , not waiting the slow motions of probability , we conclude this to be the work of a female scribe . Constantinople , Ancient and Modern , ivith Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago , and to ihe Troad . By James Dallaway , M . B . F . S . A . late Chaplain and Physician of the British Embassy to the Porte . 4 * 0 . Price it . 11 s . 6 d . Cadell and Davies . THIS very elegant volume offers a rich banquet to the pan of classical taste , and must be particularly acceptable to genuine antiquaries . Our learned
author is exceedingly happy in description , and many beautiful landscapes might be extracted from this rich and well written work . The first seftion closes with a view of the writers who preceded the author in their accounts of the Levant ; and the second contains a description of Constantinople , from which we learn , that in the library of the seraglio ( inaccessible to christians ) one hundred and twenty of Constantino's MSS . in folio , ( chieflthe New Testament and commentaries upon it ) are preserved . Vast
y ^ numbers of Greek and Latin MSS . in the Oriental languages , are kept in this repository , without arrangement or catalogue . Of the six thousand inhabitants of the seraglio , about five hundred are women . _ ' The old story of the ladies standing in a row , and the Sultan throwing his handkerchief to his choice , is not true . ' ( p . zy . ) The third section describes the political system of the seraglio ; the office ofvisier ; revenues of the emperor ; finances and great offices of the state .
In the fourth section we are informed , that there were in Constantinople , before the great fire in 1782 , more than five hundred schools . Of the thirteen public libraries at Constantinople , none contain above two thousand volumes : these are all manuscripts , of which the value stems to depend chiefly on the beauty of the penmanship and the splendour of the illuminations . A plain unomamented folio costs from fifteen to twenty pounds , if well written . ' The Turks , ' says Mr . Dallaway , ' maybe called , nationally speaking , an however ill
illiterate people ; yet it is no less true , that a taste for literature , - directed by prejudice , is cultivated by many individuals . ' He thus speaks of a popular book . von . x . V