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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
CRITICAL NOTICES OF THE LITERATURE OF THE LAST THREE MONTHS ,
AND OF MATTERS CONNECTED AVITH SCIENCE AND ART . " Why should not divers studies , at divers hours , delight , when the variety is alone able to refresh and repair us . "—Sen , Jonson ' s Discoveries .
ON the introduction of a new feature into a magazine , it has been the practice of editors , from time , we might almost say , immemorial , to make use of the opportunity thus afforded them of assuring the public how greatly they are likely to be advantaged , and how infinitely the work they have been pleased to patronize is about to be improved . We shall , however , in the present instance , pursue a different course , and neither extol
the originality of the idea , by which Ave trust to attach an additional interest to our undertaking , nor draw upon our imagination for any brilliant picture of the benefits , which our subscribers are likely to derive from it . Our business is not to take credit for what may not perhaps be justly aud exclusively due to us , nor to foreshadow in outline , what in the end we may not be able so completely to fill up with colour and shadow as we could wish . But it is our desireas well as our designto ive our readers
, , g a general critical sketch of the state of literature , science , and art , during the intervals between the publication of each number of the Freemasons ' Quarterly Magazine ; and thus , by abridging the labour of those who , in this busy age , have but little time to exhaust the treasures , which progress in everything contributing to the happiness , knowledge , and amusement of man is hourly making , increase their gratification by affording them , without any very great call upon their attention or time , the means
of acquiring such , a general acquaintance with what is going on around and about them , in matters within the limits of our design , as they could not , perhaps , so usefully obtain from any other source . We shall , in short , endeavour , by careful and judicious notices , to give our readers an idea of what , in this age of authorship , is being written for their edification , and to furnish them with information of what is most interesting in the scientific and artistic world , and thus exhibit a bird ' s-eye view of the daily progress , in our own land , of all that is useful to know , or amusing to read , in the hope that the sketch may not prove without its value and instruction .
We shall begin our notice of the current literature of the day with that portion which treats of the history of past times , and introduces us , through the pages of Mr . Finlay ' s work , to an interesting account of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire . * Most heartily do Ave welcome this accession to the historical literature of our country . It supplies the void which Gibbon left , and completes the account of lioman decadence , so that little remains to be desired . Mr . Finlay , however , is not
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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
CRITICAL NOTICES OF THE LITERATURE OF THE LAST THREE MONTHS ,
AND OF MATTERS CONNECTED AVITH SCIENCE AND ART . " Why should not divers studies , at divers hours , delight , when the variety is alone able to refresh and repair us . "—Sen , Jonson ' s Discoveries .
ON the introduction of a new feature into a magazine , it has been the practice of editors , from time , we might almost say , immemorial , to make use of the opportunity thus afforded them of assuring the public how greatly they are likely to be advantaged , and how infinitely the work they have been pleased to patronize is about to be improved . We shall , however , in the present instance , pursue a different course , and neither extol
the originality of the idea , by which Ave trust to attach an additional interest to our undertaking , nor draw upon our imagination for any brilliant picture of the benefits , which our subscribers are likely to derive from it . Our business is not to take credit for what may not perhaps be justly aud exclusively due to us , nor to foreshadow in outline , what in the end we may not be able so completely to fill up with colour and shadow as we could wish . But it is our desireas well as our designto ive our readers
, , g a general critical sketch of the state of literature , science , and art , during the intervals between the publication of each number of the Freemasons ' Quarterly Magazine ; and thus , by abridging the labour of those who , in this busy age , have but little time to exhaust the treasures , which progress in everything contributing to the happiness , knowledge , and amusement of man is hourly making , increase their gratification by affording them , without any very great call upon their attention or time , the means
of acquiring such , a general acquaintance with what is going on around and about them , in matters within the limits of our design , as they could not , perhaps , so usefully obtain from any other source . We shall , in short , endeavour , by careful and judicious notices , to give our readers an idea of what , in this age of authorship , is being written for their edification , and to furnish them with information of what is most interesting in the scientific and artistic world , and thus exhibit a bird ' s-eye view of the daily progress , in our own land , of all that is useful to know , or amusing to read , in the hope that the sketch may not prove without its value and instruction .
We shall begin our notice of the current literature of the day with that portion which treats of the history of past times , and introduces us , through the pages of Mr . Finlay ' s work , to an interesting account of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire . * Most heartily do Ave welcome this accession to the historical literature of our country . It supplies the void which Gibbon left , and completes the account of lioman decadence , so that little remains to be desired . Mr . Finlay , however , is not