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tage of profiting by his higher faculty of mind , have sufficient elasticity then to enjoy with as keen relish as now , the " essays familiar and humorous . " Robert Chambers has revived the days of Addison anil his contemporaries ; his essays are sufficiently impulsive to border on the romantic , but their truthfulness is the best test of orig inality . And Robert Chambers has an elder brother , to whom the world is also greatly indebted—and these brothers , how they must love one another !
The Black Prophet ; a Tale of Irish Famine . By William Carleton . Belfast : Simms and M'Intyre . " ¦ You may rest assured , my lord , that there is no party in this country so well qualified to afford authentic information on this particular subject , as those who have done most in giving an impulse to and sustaining the literature of their country . " It is in these words the author addresses his work to the premierLord John Russellon whose
, , ear we are sure they will not fall unheeded . The premier may not have time to peruse the " Black Prophet" with the attention it deserves ; but ; he may look into its mysteries , and if so he will find that , harrowing as are the recitals of scenes and circumstances of fiction founded on facts , they bear scarcely any approach to the dread realities caused by the present famine in Ireland , attended as it is by disease and death ! The work , we believe , has appeared in parts , in the Dublin University
Magazine ; its collection into a volume is a gift to the public , and is the first of a series called the " Parlour Library , " got up at a price ( one shilling ) that will require a circulation of many thousands to repay the outlay . Mr . Carleton ' s works are all written with a vigorous description of national customs , scenes of deep pathos , absorbing interest , and evidently have for their object the bringing before those in authority the sufferings of his countrymen , caused by neglect , indifference , and possibly by misrule . May the lesson teach a moral , even to the paramount greatness of England .
The Excellency of Man , deduced from Reason and Revelation . By Edward West . James Madden . This is indeed a grand theme , and the author has invested it with sublimity of thought and holiness of purpose , invoking to his aid those steady and stedfast principles of reason and truth , which dissolve the mists of error and superstition by a calm yet energetic investigation of undeniable evidences of the love of the ETERNAL in favour of the world f
he created , and pronounced to be " good , " as well also towards ' man , " to whom He delegated not merely the government and control of that world , but formed him in His own image , and thereby fitted him for such awful responsibility by putting His impress and seal to " the excellency of man . " In tracing the attributes of this master-piece of the work of Gon through the progress of delineation , the author has enshrined himself in
the grand conception of a fervid imagination , and has concentrated around the circle of his mental aspiration a halo of bright thoughts that illuminate the subject , attract us by their general impulse , and enable us to breathe and enjoy the delight of the same moral atmosphere with himself . ; Wonderful is that Book , the great poem of life ! and next to life , the best gift of God to man . To how many sweet and pious efforts has it not given rise ? Yet where is one more holy and beautiful than that VOL . v . it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
tage of profiting by his higher faculty of mind , have sufficient elasticity then to enjoy with as keen relish as now , the " essays familiar and humorous . " Robert Chambers has revived the days of Addison anil his contemporaries ; his essays are sufficiently impulsive to border on the romantic , but their truthfulness is the best test of orig inality . And Robert Chambers has an elder brother , to whom the world is also greatly indebted—and these brothers , how they must love one another !
The Black Prophet ; a Tale of Irish Famine . By William Carleton . Belfast : Simms and M'Intyre . " ¦ You may rest assured , my lord , that there is no party in this country so well qualified to afford authentic information on this particular subject , as those who have done most in giving an impulse to and sustaining the literature of their country . " It is in these words the author addresses his work to the premierLord John Russellon whose
, , ear we are sure they will not fall unheeded . The premier may not have time to peruse the " Black Prophet" with the attention it deserves ; but ; he may look into its mysteries , and if so he will find that , harrowing as are the recitals of scenes and circumstances of fiction founded on facts , they bear scarcely any approach to the dread realities caused by the present famine in Ireland , attended as it is by disease and death ! The work , we believe , has appeared in parts , in the Dublin University
Magazine ; its collection into a volume is a gift to the public , and is the first of a series called the " Parlour Library , " got up at a price ( one shilling ) that will require a circulation of many thousands to repay the outlay . Mr . Carleton ' s works are all written with a vigorous description of national customs , scenes of deep pathos , absorbing interest , and evidently have for their object the bringing before those in authority the sufferings of his countrymen , caused by neglect , indifference , and possibly by misrule . May the lesson teach a moral , even to the paramount greatness of England .
The Excellency of Man , deduced from Reason and Revelation . By Edward West . James Madden . This is indeed a grand theme , and the author has invested it with sublimity of thought and holiness of purpose , invoking to his aid those steady and stedfast principles of reason and truth , which dissolve the mists of error and superstition by a calm yet energetic investigation of undeniable evidences of the love of the ETERNAL in favour of the world f
he created , and pronounced to be " good , " as well also towards ' man , " to whom He delegated not merely the government and control of that world , but formed him in His own image , and thereby fitted him for such awful responsibility by putting His impress and seal to " the excellency of man . " In tracing the attributes of this master-piece of the work of Gon through the progress of delineation , the author has enshrined himself in
the grand conception of a fervid imagination , and has concentrated around the circle of his mental aspiration a halo of bright thoughts that illuminate the subject , attract us by their general impulse , and enable us to breathe and enjoy the delight of the same moral atmosphere with himself . ; Wonderful is that Book , the great poem of life ! and next to life , the best gift of God to man . To how many sweet and pious efforts has it not given rise ? Yet where is one more holy and beautiful than that VOL . v . it