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street , or have sat down with him on tlie first convenient rail of a fence , and talked with him as freely as with my father . AVhat is this ? Is it that the trul y loftiest genius is embued and identified , more than any other , with the spirit of our common humanity ? Is it that the noblest intellect is ever the most simple , unsophisticated , unpretending , and kindly ? Or , is it that Shakspeare ' s works were a household treasure — his name a household word —from my childhood ? It may be , that all of
these reasons have had their influence . And yet if I were to state what seems to me to be the chief reasons , I should put clown these two words—unconsciousness—of which Thomas Carlile has so nobly written , as one of the traits of genius—unconsciousness and humanity . He was unconscious of his greatness , and therefore would not have demanded reverence . He was an absolute impersonation of the whole spirit of humanity , and therefore he is , as it were , but a part of one ' s self . "
We recommend a perusal of these volumes . Such writers as Mr . Dewey clo great good : they enlarge the sympathies and charities of nations , and thus accelerate the great work , which destroying popular prejudice , secures millions from being made the puppets of units—which estimates man as made for something better than to kill his fellow-man , for the exquisite reason that he speaks another tongue , dwells on another shore—inhabits another region .
Mr . Midshipman Easy . B y Captain Marryatt . This novel has all the author ' s faults with less of his beauties . The Captain is " a bold man , " and attacks the understanding of his readers as he would attack a seventy-four . The way in which he brings about a catastrophe is quite sailor-like . There is no plot to be subtl y worked out—no dependence of circumstance upon circumstance ; but he sets to work , cutlass in bandand having his work to dodoes itHis chief strength lies in
, , . delineation of character of a certain order , and then he must stick to low and middle life . His heroines and his sentiment , are the heroines and sentiment of Jack on a pay day . We should not have spoken thus out of the Captain , only certain injudicious friends will class his name with Fielding and Smollett . Fielding ! the author of Tom Jones , with the writer of Peter Simple ! Why not rate Nelson with Captain Marryatt ?
Ascension ; a poem . By Richard Jones . Smith , Elder , and Co The avowed object of the author is , " to attempt the rescue of a little island in which he passed many happy years from the odium of being considered by all but the geologist a barren and uninteresting region . " This agreeable purpose , Mr . Jones has very agreeably fulfilled ; his muse is graceful and tender in sentiment , ancl harmonious in versification . There are some fine and elevated thoughts scattered throughout the poem .
FINE ARTS . —M . Daguerre has completed a diorama on the building of Solomon ' s Temple , which has been exhibited in Paris , and which , in due course , will doubtless be shown here . The French critics are in ecstacies at its design ancl execution . The Parisian reviewer gives the origin of the picture in the following characteristic words : — " M . Daguerre ouvroit un jour la Bible , et il hit ces paroles au Livre des Hois ! "
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Miscellaneous,
street , or have sat down with him on tlie first convenient rail of a fence , and talked with him as freely as with my father . AVhat is this ? Is it that the trul y loftiest genius is embued and identified , more than any other , with the spirit of our common humanity ? Is it that the noblest intellect is ever the most simple , unsophisticated , unpretending , and kindly ? Or , is it that Shakspeare ' s works were a household treasure — his name a household word —from my childhood ? It may be , that all of
these reasons have had their influence . And yet if I were to state what seems to me to be the chief reasons , I should put clown these two words—unconsciousness—of which Thomas Carlile has so nobly written , as one of the traits of genius—unconsciousness and humanity . He was unconscious of his greatness , and therefore would not have demanded reverence . He was an absolute impersonation of the whole spirit of humanity , and therefore he is , as it were , but a part of one ' s self . "
We recommend a perusal of these volumes . Such writers as Mr . Dewey clo great good : they enlarge the sympathies and charities of nations , and thus accelerate the great work , which destroying popular prejudice , secures millions from being made the puppets of units—which estimates man as made for something better than to kill his fellow-man , for the exquisite reason that he speaks another tongue , dwells on another shore—inhabits another region .
Mr . Midshipman Easy . B y Captain Marryatt . This novel has all the author ' s faults with less of his beauties . The Captain is " a bold man , " and attacks the understanding of his readers as he would attack a seventy-four . The way in which he brings about a catastrophe is quite sailor-like . There is no plot to be subtl y worked out—no dependence of circumstance upon circumstance ; but he sets to work , cutlass in bandand having his work to dodoes itHis chief strength lies in
, , . delineation of character of a certain order , and then he must stick to low and middle life . His heroines and his sentiment , are the heroines and sentiment of Jack on a pay day . We should not have spoken thus out of the Captain , only certain injudicious friends will class his name with Fielding and Smollett . Fielding ! the author of Tom Jones , with the writer of Peter Simple ! Why not rate Nelson with Captain Marryatt ?
Ascension ; a poem . By Richard Jones . Smith , Elder , and Co The avowed object of the author is , " to attempt the rescue of a little island in which he passed many happy years from the odium of being considered by all but the geologist a barren and uninteresting region . " This agreeable purpose , Mr . Jones has very agreeably fulfilled ; his muse is graceful and tender in sentiment , ancl harmonious in versification . There are some fine and elevated thoughts scattered throughout the poem .
FINE ARTS . —M . Daguerre has completed a diorama on the building of Solomon ' s Temple , which has been exhibited in Paris , and which , in due course , will doubtless be shown here . The French critics are in ecstacies at its design ancl execution . The Parisian reviewer gives the origin of the picture in the following characteristic words : — " M . Daguerre ouvroit un jour la Bible , et il hit ces paroles au Livre des Hois ! "