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Review Of New Publications .
may be inclined to differ in principle , although we are not disposed to question the fidelity of his pencil . In order to give our readers an idea of these fragments , we will select such passages as appear to us most striking , and leave upon our minds no very favourable opinion of the new order of things in France . i . General ease and opulence . ' Figure to yourself men with hats worn till they are brown and full of" holes , with long hair uncombed , in tattered
greatcoats , dirty pantaloons , boots falling below their heels , with a large knotted stick like a club in their hands , —such is the public ! ' i . e . the public of the Palais Royal , a place which the author represents as the resort of stock-jobbers and rogues of every denomination . 2 . Order in the administration and in the different branches of Government . — ' I wished , ' says the writer , ' to leave the room a moment ( at the Central Board ) to breathe a purer airbut the mournful sound of chains ' and arms which
, issued from a dark gallery , made me retreat . What have these culprits ( said I to a ragged assistant ) in a place where cards of" safety are delivered ? ' ' Do not disturb yourself , ' answered the man , ' they are assassins and thieves , who are going to receive sentence in an adjoining room . ' - It is in such apartments as these that a foreigner is received ; happy if he can escape with the loss of a few livres ; for often , the victim of irregularities
proceeding from the ignorance of the officers , he is sent from one office to another , banded from place to place for a long time , while men are disputing and quarrelling on the question , by whom and in what manner the law is to be executed r ' Again— ' Notwithstanding the good qualities of the seven present administrators of France , who seem calculated to promote the welfare of their country , the complaints on the slowness with which public business is
transacted , on the carelessness of administration , on the delays in the decisions of Government , on the neglect to observe the laws , are expressed loudly and generally . Some of " these reproaches are justly directed against the ministers , as well for their conduct in the appointment of improper persons to preside oyer the boards and the different parts of their administrations , as for the vicious organization of the boards themselves . No adequate idea can be formed of the ignorancethe idlenessand the corruption of this immense
, , number of agents , from the first clerks at the different boards to the lowest officer employed by the Government . The conduct of a part of" those officers b y whom Government is immediatel y surrounded , and of the agents employed in the different provincial administrations , is maiked b y such profound immorality as gives but little reason to hope that the republic will be of long duration . '
Dm Carlos ; a Tragedy . Translated from the German of Frederick Schiller . ivo . 5 / . boards . Richardson . WE are sufficiently acquainted with the name of Schiller , to have our attention awakened b y any productions of his pen . His beauties and his "jilts are both giganticthey 111 equal excite admiration and
, an degree our mi us with disgust . The effect of his dramas is , in general , powerful ; absiudity is their prominent feature ; but it must be acknowledged that merit uiscovers itself in every page . Don Carlos is the last of his plays that was not translated : and to us it Ppear ,, the worst of Schiller ' s performances , notwithstanding the assertion ° r Messrs . Nochden and Stoddart , the tiansla : ors of Fiesco , that ' in its native
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications .
may be inclined to differ in principle , although we are not disposed to question the fidelity of his pencil . In order to give our readers an idea of these fragments , we will select such passages as appear to us most striking , and leave upon our minds no very favourable opinion of the new order of things in France . i . General ease and opulence . ' Figure to yourself men with hats worn till they are brown and full of" holes , with long hair uncombed , in tattered
greatcoats , dirty pantaloons , boots falling below their heels , with a large knotted stick like a club in their hands , —such is the public ! ' i . e . the public of the Palais Royal , a place which the author represents as the resort of stock-jobbers and rogues of every denomination . 2 . Order in the administration and in the different branches of Government . — ' I wished , ' says the writer , ' to leave the room a moment ( at the Central Board ) to breathe a purer airbut the mournful sound of chains ' and arms which
, issued from a dark gallery , made me retreat . What have these culprits ( said I to a ragged assistant ) in a place where cards of" safety are delivered ? ' ' Do not disturb yourself , ' answered the man , ' they are assassins and thieves , who are going to receive sentence in an adjoining room . ' - It is in such apartments as these that a foreigner is received ; happy if he can escape with the loss of a few livres ; for often , the victim of irregularities
proceeding from the ignorance of the officers , he is sent from one office to another , banded from place to place for a long time , while men are disputing and quarrelling on the question , by whom and in what manner the law is to be executed r ' Again— ' Notwithstanding the good qualities of the seven present administrators of France , who seem calculated to promote the welfare of their country , the complaints on the slowness with which public business is
transacted , on the carelessness of administration , on the delays in the decisions of Government , on the neglect to observe the laws , are expressed loudly and generally . Some of " these reproaches are justly directed against the ministers , as well for their conduct in the appointment of improper persons to preside oyer the boards and the different parts of their administrations , as for the vicious organization of the boards themselves . No adequate idea can be formed of the ignorancethe idlenessand the corruption of this immense
, , number of agents , from the first clerks at the different boards to the lowest officer employed by the Government . The conduct of a part of" those officers b y whom Government is immediatel y surrounded , and of the agents employed in the different provincial administrations , is maiked b y such profound immorality as gives but little reason to hope that the republic will be of long duration . '
Dm Carlos ; a Tragedy . Translated from the German of Frederick Schiller . ivo . 5 / . boards . Richardson . WE are sufficiently acquainted with the name of Schiller , to have our attention awakened b y any productions of his pen . His beauties and his "jilts are both giganticthey 111 equal excite admiration and
, an degree our mi us with disgust . The effect of his dramas is , in general , powerful ; absiudity is their prominent feature ; but it must be acknowledged that merit uiscovers itself in every page . Don Carlos is the last of his plays that was not translated : and to us it Ppear ,, the worst of Schiller ' s performances , notwithstanding the assertion ° r Messrs . Nochden and Stoddart , the tiansla : ors of Fiesco , that ' in its native