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Literary Notices.
Rural Records ,- or Glipnpses of Village . Life . By Bro . James Smith . 2 nd Edition . Longman & Co . This volume contains no less than nineteen very lively and entertaining sketches of Rural life . Each tale commences with a vivid description of local scenery , the actors are then gracefully introduced , and each little drama is succeeded by another equally interesting . Every tale 1 ms it moral , and appealing to the best feelings of our nature , is calculated to " mend the heart . " The work lias our most cordial approbation , it is beautifully printed , and well worthy of a place in the library or on the drawing-room table .
Oracles of British Poets , a Drawing-room Tabic Booh , and Pleasant Companion for a Sound Party . By Bro . James Smith . Henry AVashbotirne , New Bridge-street . This is another pretty little addition to Christmas Literature . The game , if it may be so called , consists of thirteen very important questions ; to each of which are fifty answers , all composed of questions from the works of nearly one hundred and fifty authors . The arrangement of the game is at
once simple and instructive . A questioner having been selected , be calls upon each individual of the party to choose a number under the question proposed , and reads each answer aloud as the number is mentioned . If the party agree to the arrangement , the name of the author of the oracle is demanded , and a forfeit paid in case of ignorance , or a premium given for a correct answer . AVe can confidently recommend the Oracle as an instructive and amusing companion , introducing as it does the maxims and opinions of the best authors and philosophers , aud rendering the mind familiar with the works of the greatest men .
Longfelhws Voices of the Night . Illustrated by Mrs . Lees . Dickinson , Brothers , 111 , New Bond Street . AVe take it to be a healthful and cheering sign of the artistic tendencies of the age , when we find leisured ladies exercising their graceful aud delicate pencils in illustrating the kindred grace and delicacy of the poet's fancies . That a certain refinement and elevation of taste is native to the gentlewomen of England , we should be the first to admit , but its manifestations are
confined , for the most part , within the narrow circle of home , or friends , or kindred . Its scope is limited , its flight restrained within a very narrow range , and by consequence its influences are trifling and transitory . Its exercise is visible in some of the minor decorations of the mansion , in the lady's equipage , and in the selection and arrangement of her jewellery and costume . We gather something of her musical tastes from her conversational criticisms on the last new opera , of her literary productions from her partiality for certain writings or writers , and of ber artistic bias from the
pencillings on the margin of the Academy Catalogue , or the prints which lie scattered about at ber conversazione . But having said this , we have said all . Not so , however , with the lady whose contribution to the illustrated literature of the day , is now lying before us . Not so with the Marchioness of AVaterford , and other ladies of high artistic talent , whose published works have assisted to deepen and extend the love of art in the minds of the general public . The illustrations to the Voices of the Nihtare six in numberall
characg , , terized by a subtle appreciation of the spiritual teachings of the poet , and embodying , so fiiras the vague and intangible imagery of the mystic , can be embodied , the essence and purport of the poets verse . In the first , the starry night is typefied by a beautiful group of volant figures , with drooping eyes and flowing drapery and wings , whose very motion must have a bushing VOL . II . 3 z
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices.
Rural Records ,- or Glipnpses of Village . Life . By Bro . James Smith . 2 nd Edition . Longman & Co . This volume contains no less than nineteen very lively and entertaining sketches of Rural life . Each tale commences with a vivid description of local scenery , the actors are then gracefully introduced , and each little drama is succeeded by another equally interesting . Every tale 1 ms it moral , and appealing to the best feelings of our nature , is calculated to " mend the heart . " The work lias our most cordial approbation , it is beautifully printed , and well worthy of a place in the library or on the drawing-room table .
Oracles of British Poets , a Drawing-room Tabic Booh , and Pleasant Companion for a Sound Party . By Bro . James Smith . Henry AVashbotirne , New Bridge-street . This is another pretty little addition to Christmas Literature . The game , if it may be so called , consists of thirteen very important questions ; to each of which are fifty answers , all composed of questions from the works of nearly one hundred and fifty authors . The arrangement of the game is at
once simple and instructive . A questioner having been selected , be calls upon each individual of the party to choose a number under the question proposed , and reads each answer aloud as the number is mentioned . If the party agree to the arrangement , the name of the author of the oracle is demanded , and a forfeit paid in case of ignorance , or a premium given for a correct answer . AVe can confidently recommend the Oracle as an instructive and amusing companion , introducing as it does the maxims and opinions of the best authors and philosophers , aud rendering the mind familiar with the works of the greatest men .
Longfelhws Voices of the Night . Illustrated by Mrs . Lees . Dickinson , Brothers , 111 , New Bond Street . AVe take it to be a healthful and cheering sign of the artistic tendencies of the age , when we find leisured ladies exercising their graceful aud delicate pencils in illustrating the kindred grace and delicacy of the poet's fancies . That a certain refinement and elevation of taste is native to the gentlewomen of England , we should be the first to admit , but its manifestations are
confined , for the most part , within the narrow circle of home , or friends , or kindred . Its scope is limited , its flight restrained within a very narrow range , and by consequence its influences are trifling and transitory . Its exercise is visible in some of the minor decorations of the mansion , in the lady's equipage , and in the selection and arrangement of her jewellery and costume . We gather something of her musical tastes from her conversational criticisms on the last new opera , of her literary productions from her partiality for certain writings or writers , and of ber artistic bias from the
pencillings on the margin of the Academy Catalogue , or the prints which lie scattered about at ber conversazione . But having said this , we have said all . Not so , however , with the lady whose contribution to the illustrated literature of the day , is now lying before us . Not so with the Marchioness of AVaterford , and other ladies of high artistic talent , whose published works have assisted to deepen and extend the love of art in the minds of the general public . The illustrations to the Voices of the Nihtare six in numberall
characg , , terized by a subtle appreciation of the spiritual teachings of the poet , and embodying , so fiiras the vague and intangible imagery of the mystic , can be embodied , the essence and purport of the poets verse . In the first , the starry night is typefied by a beautiful group of volant figures , with drooping eyes and flowing drapery and wings , whose very motion must have a bushing VOL . II . 3 z