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Review Of Literature, The Drama, &C.
The Scots Masonic Magazine . No . I . 1833 . In another part of our number it will be seen , that we have indulged the hope that our Edinburgh friends may start a Masonic Magazine . Lo ! one such appeared nearly three years since , and what is odd enough , we now hear ( proh pudor !) that we have merely taken up that which had alread y failed . One thing we feel to be pretty certain , that had we known that a still-born contemporary had appearedwe should have had sad
fore-, bodings of ourselves . Another point is not less clear , that our Scottish brother evidently wanted spirit himself , and information from others to effect that which even zeal and industry unaided will often fail to accomplish . Let him try No . 2 , and he will find us ready to help him upon all the points of fellowship . He appears to have been acquainted with Brother " Joe Miller" of the " olden time , " and for the joke of the thing , we would republish the anecdote of the "Mason ' s sign , " had
we room . Scotland , by William Beattie , M . D . Illustrated in a series of Views taken expressly for this work , by Thomas Allom , & c . Engraved b y . or under the immediate direction of Robert Wallis . London , Virtue and Co ., Ivy Lane . This work does great credit to the publishers , no care or expence having been spared . With respect to its particular merits , we have first to remark , that the subject is so well chosen , that nothing but material error could render it uninteresting . The scenery of
Scotland has in itself all the elements that can fascinate the lover of nature . More various than the bolder beauty that belongs to Switzerland and Germany , and by the accurate historical researches of her sons , more intimately allied to romantic associations than even Ital y herself , Scotland must ever remain a land of engrossing interest . In the present work , the native beauty of the whole subject is increased by a judicious and tasteful selection of its best parts . The views are accurate ( we
speak from the testimony of an eye witness ) , and the engraving generally good , is in several instances very beautiful . We can scarcel y give so favourable an account of the descriptions as of the drawings . For in those there is much that is loose , foreign to the subject ; and in the parts relating to Sir W . Scott , affected . However , the materials for historical anecdote are so abundant , and topographical observations are so numerous as regards Scotlandthat it is as impossible to write a dull
, book on this country , as to make an uninteresting picture of its scenery ; and among the many presents of pretty pictures and stories , that young ladies and gentlemen wish to receive with the New Year , there are none they would prefer to Beattie ' s Scotland , always remembering that as the work is not finished , the first present involves a second , or perhaps a third .
Junius , Lord Chatham , and the " Miscellaneous Letters" proved to be spurious . By John Swinden . Longman and Co . The authorship of the Letters is nearly as doubtful a matter of debate now as when first the inquiry was instituted ; nor indeed do we anticipate that the problem will ever be completely solved . The present inquirer has not satisfied us that Chatham wrote the famous letters ; but he has gone so far as to show clearlythat such may possiblhave
, y been the case , and that , at all events , there is the highest degree of probability they were the production of some who enjoyed his intimacy ; and moreover , one important step has been gained b y Mr . Swinden : He has shown by very strong evidence , that the " Miscellaneous Letters , " published by the second Woodfall , as Appendices to the Original Letters , edited by their Author , are spurious . Now they were the great
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Review Of Literature, The Drama, &C.
The Scots Masonic Magazine . No . I . 1833 . In another part of our number it will be seen , that we have indulged the hope that our Edinburgh friends may start a Masonic Magazine . Lo ! one such appeared nearly three years since , and what is odd enough , we now hear ( proh pudor !) that we have merely taken up that which had alread y failed . One thing we feel to be pretty certain , that had we known that a still-born contemporary had appearedwe should have had sad
fore-, bodings of ourselves . Another point is not less clear , that our Scottish brother evidently wanted spirit himself , and information from others to effect that which even zeal and industry unaided will often fail to accomplish . Let him try No . 2 , and he will find us ready to help him upon all the points of fellowship . He appears to have been acquainted with Brother " Joe Miller" of the " olden time , " and for the joke of the thing , we would republish the anecdote of the "Mason ' s sign , " had
we room . Scotland , by William Beattie , M . D . Illustrated in a series of Views taken expressly for this work , by Thomas Allom , & c . Engraved b y . or under the immediate direction of Robert Wallis . London , Virtue and Co ., Ivy Lane . This work does great credit to the publishers , no care or expence having been spared . With respect to its particular merits , we have first to remark , that the subject is so well chosen , that nothing but material error could render it uninteresting . The scenery of
Scotland has in itself all the elements that can fascinate the lover of nature . More various than the bolder beauty that belongs to Switzerland and Germany , and by the accurate historical researches of her sons , more intimately allied to romantic associations than even Ital y herself , Scotland must ever remain a land of engrossing interest . In the present work , the native beauty of the whole subject is increased by a judicious and tasteful selection of its best parts . The views are accurate ( we
speak from the testimony of an eye witness ) , and the engraving generally good , is in several instances very beautiful . We can scarcel y give so favourable an account of the descriptions as of the drawings . For in those there is much that is loose , foreign to the subject ; and in the parts relating to Sir W . Scott , affected . However , the materials for historical anecdote are so abundant , and topographical observations are so numerous as regards Scotlandthat it is as impossible to write a dull
, book on this country , as to make an uninteresting picture of its scenery ; and among the many presents of pretty pictures and stories , that young ladies and gentlemen wish to receive with the New Year , there are none they would prefer to Beattie ' s Scotland , always remembering that as the work is not finished , the first present involves a second , or perhaps a third .
Junius , Lord Chatham , and the " Miscellaneous Letters" proved to be spurious . By John Swinden . Longman and Co . The authorship of the Letters is nearly as doubtful a matter of debate now as when first the inquiry was instituted ; nor indeed do we anticipate that the problem will ever be completely solved . The present inquirer has not satisfied us that Chatham wrote the famous letters ; but he has gone so far as to show clearlythat such may possiblhave
, y been the case , and that , at all events , there is the highest degree of probability they were the production of some who enjoyed his intimacy ; and moreover , one important step has been gained b y Mr . Swinden : He has shown by very strong evidence , that the " Miscellaneous Letters , " published by the second Woodfall , as Appendices to the Original Letters , edited by their Author , are spurious . Now they were the great