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Review Of New Publications.
Three Dialogues on the Amusements of Clergymen . London , B . and J . White , Fleet-Street , 1796 , \ % mo . Pages 224 . Price 3 * . 6 */ . THIS elegant tract , we can assure our readers , is written by Mr . Wilberforce , M . P . for Yorkshire ; and adds fresh laurels to the ample wreathe that encircles the brow of our philanthropist . It is composed in a strain of colloquial diction , admirabl y adapted to keep attention awake ; whether we consider the importance of its doctrinesin generalor the more particular
de-, , lightful sentiments of benevolence it inculcates . We will not press the many advantages resulting from the introduction of dialogues . Spence , in his preface to Polymetis , has fully anticipated us . Mr . W's speakers are Dr . Josiah Frampton , and Dr . Edward Stillingfleet , dean of St . Pauls - . the latter performs the office of mentor to his young friend , then curate of Wroxal in Warwickshire . The scene is laid in Sir Roger Burgout ' s hospitable mansion , where the good dean is supposed to be confined with the
gout . Although no frivolous merriment intervenes , delicate touches of goodnatured raillery occasionall y appear , which , while they play round the imagination , cannot fail , we trust , to affect and to amend the heart . The limits of our publication permit us not largely to expatiate , even in the fair fields of panegyric : but , to review the productions of cotemporaries , is too often so invidious a taskthat we are most happy whenever we can conscientiousl
, y apply ' the amaranthine end of the sceptre . " [ See Rambler , No . 3 . ] Might we venture to suggest an improvement , it would be the insertion of fixed rules for the economy of a married clergyman ' s family ; together with temperate strictures upon the sadl y dependent state of the inferior . clergy . SLOW RISES WORTH BY POVERTY DEPREST 1
An Inquiry into the authenticity of certain Papers and Instruments , attributed to Shakespeare , in a Letter addressed to the Ri ght Honourable James , Earl of Charlemont . By Edmond Malone , Esq . Svo . Pages 424 . Price -is . Cadell and Davies . ( CONTINUED . ) IN our last Month ' s Review , we made some cursory observations on the two first of Mr . Malone ' s objections to the authenticity of the MSS
. produced by Mr . Ireland . We shall now proceed to the consideration of the two that remain . The first of these is to " the dates given , or deducible by inference . " One of the grand points on which Mr . Malone seems to rest here , is the mention of the Globe Theatre , when it did not exist ; and the proofs of its non-existence are drawn from—1 st . Its being mentioned in some authorities ( which quoted ) the housein the
are as " Menu Play- ; ' year following that in w-hich it is mentioned in the MSS . and— zdly . On the Globe Theatre not being men turned in several accounts and documents of the theatrical ali ' airs , of that ne " nod in which the MSS . state it to have been the property of Shakespeare " Now that a theatre , which had existed many years , might be called the "New Play-house , " is not only possible , but probable . In the beginr . ino- of this century , we had for thirty the " New Theatrein Lincolns fields
years , Inn •" and more recently we have had the " New Theatre royal , Covent Garden ' " and the « New Theatre royal , DruryLane ;" yet we cannot deny that they are both very old Houses . Nay a place that has once been called NEW , always continues to be called so : thus we have the " New Church , in the Strand " tne New Street , Covent Garden , and the New Exchange in the . Strand . As to the - second point , it is a very fair presumption ; but it can only become VOL . VI . x x ¦''¦ - .
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Review Of New Publications.
Three Dialogues on the Amusements of Clergymen . London , B . and J . White , Fleet-Street , 1796 , \ % mo . Pages 224 . Price 3 * . 6 */ . THIS elegant tract , we can assure our readers , is written by Mr . Wilberforce , M . P . for Yorkshire ; and adds fresh laurels to the ample wreathe that encircles the brow of our philanthropist . It is composed in a strain of colloquial diction , admirabl y adapted to keep attention awake ; whether we consider the importance of its doctrinesin generalor the more particular
de-, , lightful sentiments of benevolence it inculcates . We will not press the many advantages resulting from the introduction of dialogues . Spence , in his preface to Polymetis , has fully anticipated us . Mr . W's speakers are Dr . Josiah Frampton , and Dr . Edward Stillingfleet , dean of St . Pauls - . the latter performs the office of mentor to his young friend , then curate of Wroxal in Warwickshire . The scene is laid in Sir Roger Burgout ' s hospitable mansion , where the good dean is supposed to be confined with the
gout . Although no frivolous merriment intervenes , delicate touches of goodnatured raillery occasionall y appear , which , while they play round the imagination , cannot fail , we trust , to affect and to amend the heart . The limits of our publication permit us not largely to expatiate , even in the fair fields of panegyric : but , to review the productions of cotemporaries , is too often so invidious a taskthat we are most happy whenever we can conscientiousl
, y apply ' the amaranthine end of the sceptre . " [ See Rambler , No . 3 . ] Might we venture to suggest an improvement , it would be the insertion of fixed rules for the economy of a married clergyman ' s family ; together with temperate strictures upon the sadl y dependent state of the inferior . clergy . SLOW RISES WORTH BY POVERTY DEPREST 1
An Inquiry into the authenticity of certain Papers and Instruments , attributed to Shakespeare , in a Letter addressed to the Ri ght Honourable James , Earl of Charlemont . By Edmond Malone , Esq . Svo . Pages 424 . Price -is . Cadell and Davies . ( CONTINUED . ) IN our last Month ' s Review , we made some cursory observations on the two first of Mr . Malone ' s objections to the authenticity of the MSS
. produced by Mr . Ireland . We shall now proceed to the consideration of the two that remain . The first of these is to " the dates given , or deducible by inference . " One of the grand points on which Mr . Malone seems to rest here , is the mention of the Globe Theatre , when it did not exist ; and the proofs of its non-existence are drawn from—1 st . Its being mentioned in some authorities ( which quoted ) the housein the
are as " Menu Play- ; ' year following that in w-hich it is mentioned in the MSS . and— zdly . On the Globe Theatre not being men turned in several accounts and documents of the theatrical ali ' airs , of that ne " nod in which the MSS . state it to have been the property of Shakespeare " Now that a theatre , which had existed many years , might be called the "New Play-house , " is not only possible , but probable . In the beginr . ino- of this century , we had for thirty the " New Theatrein Lincolns fields
years , Inn •" and more recently we have had the " New Theatre royal , Covent Garden ' " and the « New Theatre royal , DruryLane ;" yet we cannot deny that they are both very old Houses . Nay a place that has once been called NEW , always continues to be called so : thus we have the " New Church , in the Strand " tne New Street , Covent Garden , and the New Exchange in the . Strand . As to the - second point , it is a very fair presumption ; but it can only become VOL . VI . x x ¦''¦ - .