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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
The "Clintons , " * "Sir Frederick Derwent , "f "Electra , "J "The Maiden ' s Town , " § " The Young Heiress , " || " The Maid of Florence , " ^ "Fortune , " ** andthe"LifeofSilasBarnstarke , "ftareastrangemedley . The first is a semi-religious novel , in which two young ladies discard their lovers , the one for being too religious , and the other for not being sufficiently so . The second is full of mystery , one or two duels , and a return to life under somewhat peculiar circumstances ; and the remainder are genuine novels
, with the fair complement of love scenes , difficulties and dangers , and happy terminations . The " Life of Silas Barnstarke , " however , is an exception . It is the life of a man devoted to the acquisition of wealth , in whom every other feeling is dead , ancl whose influence on those around him is as baneful as his own self-caused misery is complete . In a literary point of view , the work i 3 entitled to praise , the author keeping his object steadily in view , and drawing a healthy moral from his tale .
Amongst the most interesting works iu what may not be inaptly termed the miscellaneous department of literature , are Mr . Urquhart ' s volume on " Russia ' s Designs and Progress , " XX all ( 1 Mr- W . S . Lauder ' s " Imaginary Conversations . " §§ The former having very correct notions on the recent "diplomatic blunder ; " and the latter being determined to foi-ce a taste for semi-English classics on the good practical people of England . Both are clever works in their way ; only Mr . Urquhart is somewhat too prosy ,
and Mr . Lauder a great deal too learned . Mr . Brace ' s work on " Classic and Historic Portraits , " |||| is full of amusing parallels , and if not very profound or carefully written , is well planned and tastefully executed . The Rev . Alexander Dyce ' s " Notes on Shakespeare , " ^ ff are so many blows levelled at poor Mr . J . P , Collier ; although we are bound to acknowledge that they show singular ingenuity in solving some difficulties connected with the textand very considerable knowled of the writings and
, ge language of the early English writers . Mr . Fletcher ' s " Autobiography of a Missionary , " * is more than half a romance , derived from a series of events in a missionary ' s life of daily occurrence ; and cleverly made up from foreign experiences , for the most part the result of actual observation . Captain Chesterton ' s "Peace , War , and Adventure , " f is a series
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
The "Clintons , " * "Sir Frederick Derwent , "f "Electra , "J "The Maiden ' s Town , " § " The Young Heiress , " || " The Maid of Florence , " ^ "Fortune , " ** andthe"LifeofSilasBarnstarke , "ftareastrangemedley . The first is a semi-religious novel , in which two young ladies discard their lovers , the one for being too religious , and the other for not being sufficiently so . The second is full of mystery , one or two duels , and a return to life under somewhat peculiar circumstances ; and the remainder are genuine novels
, with the fair complement of love scenes , difficulties and dangers , and happy terminations . The " Life of Silas Barnstarke , " however , is an exception . It is the life of a man devoted to the acquisition of wealth , in whom every other feeling is dead , ancl whose influence on those around him is as baneful as his own self-caused misery is complete . In a literary point of view , the work i 3 entitled to praise , the author keeping his object steadily in view , and drawing a healthy moral from his tale .
Amongst the most interesting works iu what may not be inaptly termed the miscellaneous department of literature , are Mr . Urquhart ' s volume on " Russia ' s Designs and Progress , " XX all ( 1 Mr- W . S . Lauder ' s " Imaginary Conversations . " §§ The former having very correct notions on the recent "diplomatic blunder ; " and the latter being determined to foi-ce a taste for semi-English classics on the good practical people of England . Both are clever works in their way ; only Mr . Urquhart is somewhat too prosy ,
and Mr . Lauder a great deal too learned . Mr . Brace ' s work on " Classic and Historic Portraits , " |||| is full of amusing parallels , and if not very profound or carefully written , is well planned and tastefully executed . The Rev . Alexander Dyce ' s " Notes on Shakespeare , " ^ ff are so many blows levelled at poor Mr . J . P , Collier ; although we are bound to acknowledge that they show singular ingenuity in solving some difficulties connected with the textand very considerable knowled of the writings and
, ge language of the early English writers . Mr . Fletcher ' s " Autobiography of a Missionary , " * is more than half a romance , derived from a series of events in a missionary ' s life of daily occurrence ; and cleverly made up from foreign experiences , for the most part the result of actual observation . Captain Chesterton ' s "Peace , War , and Adventure , " f is a series