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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
deroga , " * by G . P . E . James , being the only two entitled to notice at our hands . The former , written long previous to Mrs . Stowe ' s work , but only very recently published , is an account of slave life in Trinidad , and an excellent as well as faithful picture does it give of slavery in that island in 1832 . Without , however , exciting the dramatic horror which it was Mrs . Stowe ' s object to inspire , and to which the success she met
Avith is principally due , we have quite sufficient of the revolting and cruel to make us regard with dread an institution so opposed to religion and humanity . Mrs . Wilkins has treated the subject with skill and power ; the story is not only well conceived , but well told , and it is richly deserving ofthe time which may be given to its attentive perusal , " Ticonderoga" is by no means as interesting a work as many others from the same and even had not Cooper exhausted the field over
pen ; whieh the well-worn quill of Mr . James has sought to travel , we should hardly have much to say in its praise . Nevertheless , this author is too old a hand at romance-writing to have written a work wholly devoid of interest or amusement . There are , accordingly , many scenes of great power , many a fair description of beautiful lands , while , by judicious management , the curiosity of the reader is kept on the qui vine to the end
of the third volume . As a whole , however , it is not equal by many degrees to many of Mr . James ' s other works . We must not , however , forget to mention " Castellamonte , "t which is really deserving of considerable praise . It is an autobiographical romance of a period of Italian history which no patriot or lover of liberty can pass by unheeded . It is a tale of suffering and wrong : and if we cannot always sympathize with the author , we are , at least , free to acknowledge that ,
whether misled or misleading , the privations he underwent were of no ordinary kind . In the artistic and scientific world there is little whieh calls for our attention . Photography is taking a place among the arts within the last year or two , to which it has been laying a substantial claim . The war , nowever , acts as an absorbent , and we have really in this department nothing to record . Conical ballslong rangesingenious contrivances for
, , swinging horses on board ships , and for keeping tbem secure when there , monopolize public attention , and in the present state of things perhaps deservedly . Most heartily , however , do we close these brief and imperfect notices , with the sincere prayer that the calamities incident to a prolonged state of war may be spared us , and trust that the peace of Europe may be speedily and satisfactorily restored in the present , and established on some secure basis for the future .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
deroga , " * by G . P . E . James , being the only two entitled to notice at our hands . The former , written long previous to Mrs . Stowe ' s work , but only very recently published , is an account of slave life in Trinidad , and an excellent as well as faithful picture does it give of slavery in that island in 1832 . Without , however , exciting the dramatic horror which it was Mrs . Stowe ' s object to inspire , and to which the success she met
Avith is principally due , we have quite sufficient of the revolting and cruel to make us regard with dread an institution so opposed to religion and humanity . Mrs . Wilkins has treated the subject with skill and power ; the story is not only well conceived , but well told , and it is richly deserving ofthe time which may be given to its attentive perusal , " Ticonderoga" is by no means as interesting a work as many others from the same and even had not Cooper exhausted the field over
pen ; whieh the well-worn quill of Mr . James has sought to travel , we should hardly have much to say in its praise . Nevertheless , this author is too old a hand at romance-writing to have written a work wholly devoid of interest or amusement . There are , accordingly , many scenes of great power , many a fair description of beautiful lands , while , by judicious management , the curiosity of the reader is kept on the qui vine to the end
of the third volume . As a whole , however , it is not equal by many degrees to many of Mr . James ' s other works . We must not , however , forget to mention " Castellamonte , "t which is really deserving of considerable praise . It is an autobiographical romance of a period of Italian history which no patriot or lover of liberty can pass by unheeded . It is a tale of suffering and wrong : and if we cannot always sympathize with the author , we are , at least , free to acknowledge that ,
whether misled or misleading , the privations he underwent were of no ordinary kind . In the artistic and scientific world there is little whieh calls for our attention . Photography is taking a place among the arts within the last year or two , to which it has been laying a substantial claim . The war , nowever , acts as an absorbent , and we have really in this department nothing to record . Conical ballslong rangesingenious contrivances for
, , swinging horses on board ships , and for keeping tbem secure when there , monopolize public attention , and in the present state of things perhaps deservedly . Most heartily , however , do we close these brief and imperfect notices , with the sincere prayer that the calamities incident to a prolonged state of war may be spared us , and trust that the peace of Europe may be speedily and satisfactorily restored in the present , and established on some secure basis for the future .