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evidently desires himself to be regarded as the hero ; and by this means challenges severer criticism than he might otherwise expect to receive . Were it not for this we should be inclined to look upon the book as a poem , wild and unnatural ; it is true , but powerful , and fraught with considerable interest . But regarded as a description of his own emotions it is a monstrosity . A man who really feels what he writes , cannot intermingle
delineation of university life , Greek , Latin , French , and Italian quotations , with the portraiture of wild paroxysms of passion . He therefore does not meet with our sympathy , because where he endeavours to excite it most we are impressed most strongly with the unreality of what we are reading . The whole work is a literary blunder . Mr . Thurstan is evidently possessed of much ability , great experience in the world , and considerable power of expression . His paintings of the human passions fail simply because he
considers it necessary to strain after too much effect . But here and there we meet with passages which we are compelled to admire as much for their truth as their purity , and as a specimen of these we may point to his remarks on childhood , where the diction and the thought partake , as it were , of the simplicity of our early days . Our readers must not expect to find in the " Passionate Pilgrim" a tale , properly so called , or even a connected narrative . It is simply a prolonged detail of tumultuous passion ,
intermingled , as we have said , with pictures of university life , and here and there with beautiful paintings of nature . Even these descriptions , however , are pictures which can scarcely be said to be fully formed upon the canvas . There are , as it were , pencilled out , and are open to the reception of more glowing and vivifying colours . The whole book , however , being out of the common order , these portions of it are consistent with the rest , and would , if more developed , alter the character of the story .
There are very few to whom the . book will be acceptable . In the minds of the majority of the public , scarcely sufficient interest will be excited to induce them to pursue the narrative to the end ; while no one , we think , can experience much sympathy with the disappointments , sorrows , and bitter trials which are the lot of its hero . We can commend Mr . Thurstan for having produced a book which displays great ability , and proves that he is capable of doing better things—and that is all .
Quiz , Parts 1 and 2 . London , 310 , Strand . —This is a new monthly comic journal , the nature of its contents being well explained by its title . Nothing appears too great or too small to come under the pen of u Quiz , " as the articles vary from cabinet ministers to monthly nurses ( the latter , a capital sketch , which we recommend to all heads of families from London by the
sea side ) to the most excruciating of conundrums . The lectures on the Georges , by Whackaway , present a good skit upon the lectures of a celebrated author whose bad taste it would be impossible to excel . The illustrations are many of them clever , and the work will probably take a fail place amongst cheap periodicals .
A delightful Summer Residence . —The governor and other magnates of Bomhay are in the habit of retiring in tho hot weather to the village of Matheran , a very charming spot , but one , it would appear which resembles some English sea side resorts in the article of blood-suckers . During the rains , Matheran is any thing but a desirable residence , being , we are told , overrun with leeches and such like heartless vermin , which shed innocent blood without the slightest compunction , gently creeping beneath one ' s unwhisperables , and sucking away till they drop from exhaustion . One who has lived at Matheran daring the rainy season , . subject to these blood letting influences , can dispense with cupping for the rest of his days . — Indian Letter .
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Reviewsjke Hew Books /
evidently desires himself to be regarded as the hero ; and by this means challenges severer criticism than he might otherwise expect to receive . Were it not for this we should be inclined to look upon the book as a poem , wild and unnatural ; it is true , but powerful , and fraught with considerable interest . But regarded as a description of his own emotions it is a monstrosity . A man who really feels what he writes , cannot intermingle
delineation of university life , Greek , Latin , French , and Italian quotations , with the portraiture of wild paroxysms of passion . He therefore does not meet with our sympathy , because where he endeavours to excite it most we are impressed most strongly with the unreality of what we are reading . The whole work is a literary blunder . Mr . Thurstan is evidently possessed of much ability , great experience in the world , and considerable power of expression . His paintings of the human passions fail simply because he
considers it necessary to strain after too much effect . But here and there we meet with passages which we are compelled to admire as much for their truth as their purity , and as a specimen of these we may point to his remarks on childhood , where the diction and the thought partake , as it were , of the simplicity of our early days . Our readers must not expect to find in the " Passionate Pilgrim" a tale , properly so called , or even a connected narrative . It is simply a prolonged detail of tumultuous passion ,
intermingled , as we have said , with pictures of university life , and here and there with beautiful paintings of nature . Even these descriptions , however , are pictures which can scarcely be said to be fully formed upon the canvas . There are , as it were , pencilled out , and are open to the reception of more glowing and vivifying colours . The whole book , however , being out of the common order , these portions of it are consistent with the rest , and would , if more developed , alter the character of the story .
There are very few to whom the . book will be acceptable . In the minds of the majority of the public , scarcely sufficient interest will be excited to induce them to pursue the narrative to the end ; while no one , we think , can experience much sympathy with the disappointments , sorrows , and bitter trials which are the lot of its hero . We can commend Mr . Thurstan for having produced a book which displays great ability , and proves that he is capable of doing better things—and that is all .
Quiz , Parts 1 and 2 . London , 310 , Strand . —This is a new monthly comic journal , the nature of its contents being well explained by its title . Nothing appears too great or too small to come under the pen of u Quiz , " as the articles vary from cabinet ministers to monthly nurses ( the latter , a capital sketch , which we recommend to all heads of families from London by the
sea side ) to the most excruciating of conundrums . The lectures on the Georges , by Whackaway , present a good skit upon the lectures of a celebrated author whose bad taste it would be impossible to excel . The illustrations are many of them clever , and the work will probably take a fail place amongst cheap periodicals .
A delightful Summer Residence . —The governor and other magnates of Bomhay are in the habit of retiring in tho hot weather to the village of Matheran , a very charming spot , but one , it would appear which resembles some English sea side resorts in the article of blood-suckers . During the rains , Matheran is any thing but a desirable residence , being , we are told , overrun with leeches and such like heartless vermin , which shed innocent blood without the slightest compunction , gently creeping beneath one ' s unwhisperables , and sucking away till they drop from exhaustion . One who has lived at Matheran daring the rainy season , . subject to these blood letting influences , can dispense with cupping for the rest of his days . — Indian Letter .