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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
been more decided and complete , it may safely bo said no man ' s career has ever been more decried . Politicians aucl litterateurs have made common cause . The former , in actual and real life , have never lost au opportunity to abuse him ; and the latter have seldom , if ever , found a single word to say in his praise . We decline , therefore , to join in the general crusade against the late Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and while recommending his biography as well worthy of perusalwe warn our readers not to allow
, their minds to be prejudiced by the reviews which the great leviathan of the press , the Times , and our caustic contemporary the Spectator , put forth , with objects having as little to do with the literary excellence of tho work , as they certainly evinced a very decided political object . Of a more humble character are the memoirs of the Bev . J . Crabb * and John Boby ; f the former a preacher of the old Wesley and Whitfield school , —a man whose great powers of endurance enabled him to perform
a vast amount of good amongst that class who mostly need the advice and assistance of such a man as Crabb . At Southampton especially , where he founded several schools , ancl established a kind of female penitentiary , his name will bo long ancl deservedly remembered . Although belonging to no particular Church , to him Avas , as it were , tacitly entrusted the task of preparing the fold ; for no sooner had Crabb collected around him , with infinite trouble , a vagrant congregation , than a shepherd was appointed ,
and Crabb moved off to begin his labours elsewhere . John Boby , the author of " Traditions of Lancashire , " and one or two other works , was a banker of Bochdale , whose amiable character and many social accomplishments endeared him to the circle of which he was tho oracle . His widow , in publishing his remains , has done a kindly office to the locality and her many friends ; for if her husband had not attained any very high position either in literature or tho arts ( for he AA'as a pleasing
painter as well as a writer ) , he is , at least , entitled to the grateful recollection of those to whom his many excellent qualities Avorthily endeared him . In the miscellaneous department of literature are several works of note and merit . The earliest in point of date is Professor Maurice ' s "Philosophy ofthe Eirst Six Centuries , " J re-written from an early work published in the Encyclopedia Metropolitans . It is thus described by an able reviewer •—
On the one hand , the expositor deals with heathen philosophers , from Seneca and Epictetus , in the apostolic times , till Boethius arose to connect the middle age and classical world , and Justinian , in the sixth century , closed the schools of Athens upon the mystic seven ; and , on the other hand , with the most eminent fathers , from Ignatius to Gregory the First . He is , therefore , continually ecountering heathen opinions , whieh the mass of us not only look upon as false bxit dead , or doctrines which Protestants consider as idle or superstitious ; yet Mr . Maurice continually penetrates below the surface to revive the life which the opinions possessed at the time , to rescue from contempt or indifference the truth whieh they contained , and to show ( with less continuous success , perhaps ) the bearing they had upon the philosoiihy of the middle ages , and upon modern
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
been more decided and complete , it may safely bo said no man ' s career has ever been more decried . Politicians aucl litterateurs have made common cause . The former , in actual and real life , have never lost au opportunity to abuse him ; and the latter have seldom , if ever , found a single word to say in his praise . We decline , therefore , to join in the general crusade against the late Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and while recommending his biography as well worthy of perusalwe warn our readers not to allow
, their minds to be prejudiced by the reviews which the great leviathan of the press , the Times , and our caustic contemporary the Spectator , put forth , with objects having as little to do with the literary excellence of tho work , as they certainly evinced a very decided political object . Of a more humble character are the memoirs of the Bev . J . Crabb * and John Boby ; f the former a preacher of the old Wesley and Whitfield school , —a man whose great powers of endurance enabled him to perform
a vast amount of good amongst that class who mostly need the advice and assistance of such a man as Crabb . At Southampton especially , where he founded several schools , ancl established a kind of female penitentiary , his name will bo long ancl deservedly remembered . Although belonging to no particular Church , to him Avas , as it were , tacitly entrusted the task of preparing the fold ; for no sooner had Crabb collected around him , with infinite trouble , a vagrant congregation , than a shepherd was appointed ,
and Crabb moved off to begin his labours elsewhere . John Boby , the author of " Traditions of Lancashire , " and one or two other works , was a banker of Bochdale , whose amiable character and many social accomplishments endeared him to the circle of which he was tho oracle . His widow , in publishing his remains , has done a kindly office to the locality and her many friends ; for if her husband had not attained any very high position either in literature or tho arts ( for he AA'as a pleasing
painter as well as a writer ) , he is , at least , entitled to the grateful recollection of those to whom his many excellent qualities Avorthily endeared him . In the miscellaneous department of literature are several works of note and merit . The earliest in point of date is Professor Maurice ' s "Philosophy ofthe Eirst Six Centuries , " J re-written from an early work published in the Encyclopedia Metropolitans . It is thus described by an able reviewer •—
On the one hand , the expositor deals with heathen philosophers , from Seneca and Epictetus , in the apostolic times , till Boethius arose to connect the middle age and classical world , and Justinian , in the sixth century , closed the schools of Athens upon the mystic seven ; and , on the other hand , with the most eminent fathers , from Ignatius to Gregory the First . He is , therefore , continually ecountering heathen opinions , whieh the mass of us not only look upon as false bxit dead , or doctrines which Protestants consider as idle or superstitious ; yet Mr . Maurice continually penetrates below the surface to revive the life which the opinions possessed at the time , to rescue from contempt or indifference the truth whieh they contained , and to show ( with less continuous success , perhaps ) the bearing they had upon the philosoiihy of the middle ages , and upon modern