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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
that so powerful a Avriter should lack the greatest inducements to virtue , ancl the surest foundation of happiness . Professor Vaughan ' s pamphlet on " Oxford Educational Beform" * is , as it purports to be , a reply to the objections which have been made to the report of the Eoyal Commission ; and it certainly is the most ably-Avritten treatise on the subject . In vindicating , hoAvever , tho professors of that universitfrom tho charges brought against them and then * -
y par ticular mode of teaching , by Dr . Pusey , Mr . Vaughan " runs into tho opposite extreme , and overlooks changes in the system which might very advantageously be made . A new edition of Mr . M'Culloeh ' s " Commercial Dictionai * y , "f ancl a reprint of four articles in the Quarterly Seview on agriculture , by the late Mr . Gisborne , complete our list of miscellaneous works . Tho former book is already too well known to need any praise of ours . Suffice it to say
, that it is far the most carefully-written and compendious treatise on so vast a subject ; and as to the latter , Mr . Gisborne ' s well-known experience on the subject of which he wrote is a sufficient guarantee to the reader that the subject is carefully ancl ably treated . So serious is the influx of books having reference to tho Eusso-Turkish question , and the war that is HOAV going on in tho East , that to rank them under the head of " Travels" would be preposterouswhile under that
, of "Novels , " the great majority would naturally fall , being , in . fact , purely ancl simply works of imagination . The best works on tho subject are those written respectivel y by Colonel Chesney , ! Mr . Patrick 0 'Brien , § and Mr . Smyth ; || the remainder ^ f are written , we suppose , with the scarcely concealed object of turning a somewhat questionable penny at the expense of the credulity of the British
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
that so powerful a Avriter should lack the greatest inducements to virtue , ancl the surest foundation of happiness . Professor Vaughan ' s pamphlet on " Oxford Educational Beform" * is , as it purports to be , a reply to the objections which have been made to the report of the Eoyal Commission ; and it certainly is the most ably-Avritten treatise on the subject . In vindicating , hoAvever , tho professors of that universitfrom tho charges brought against them and then * -
y par ticular mode of teaching , by Dr . Pusey , Mr . Vaughan " runs into tho opposite extreme , and overlooks changes in the system which might very advantageously be made . A new edition of Mr . M'Culloeh ' s " Commercial Dictionai * y , "f ancl a reprint of four articles in the Quarterly Seview on agriculture , by the late Mr . Gisborne , complete our list of miscellaneous works . Tho former book is already too well known to need any praise of ours . Suffice it to say
, that it is far the most carefully-written and compendious treatise on so vast a subject ; and as to the latter , Mr . Gisborne ' s well-known experience on the subject of which he wrote is a sufficient guarantee to the reader that the subject is carefully ancl ably treated . So serious is the influx of books having reference to tho Eusso-Turkish question , and the war that is HOAV going on in tho East , that to rank them under the head of " Travels" would be preposterouswhile under that
, of "Novels , " the great majority would naturally fall , being , in . fact , purely ancl simply works of imagination . The best works on tho subject are those written respectivel y by Colonel Chesney , ! Mr . Patrick 0 'Brien , § and Mr . Smyth ; || the remainder ^ f are written , we suppose , with the scarcely concealed object of turning a somewhat questionable penny at the expense of the credulity of the British