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Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS .
A Month in Yorkshire , by Walter White . London : Chapman & Hall , 1858 . —Mr . White is already well known in literature as the chronicler of his own pedestrianism ; Ave therefore open this volume with interest , and are not disappointed at its contents . Choosing Yorkshire for a months ramble , he started from London by boat to Hull , ' where ' there Avere very few attractions to induce him to stay—and Ave can easily understand Avhy he should pronounce the cemetery the pleasantest quarter of the town—he
shouldered his knapsack , and proceeded on his march after beauty . The network of railways , Avhich iioav intersect all quarters of the kingdom , affords every facility for striding over such tracts of country as may he considered flat , stale , and unprofitable ,-and Mr . ' White -appears' fully to have availed himself of this- means of bringing all points of interest together ; but it must not be supposed , therefore , that he is an indifferent pedestrian . The county of York is the largest in England , and it would be impossible , in the
short space of a month , to go over the ground he has traversed Avithout such assistance . Whatever locality our author fixes upon for exploration , he sets about it in right earnest . ' He is up at an early hour , and sallies forth with all that gaiety of heart attendant on anticipated pleasure , and accompanied by the trill of the lark , he proceeds on his way , brushing the dews—Avhich Coleridge calls the gems of morning ' from the grass in the
xalley , or the heather that grows down the mountain side . He is indifferent AA here he dines or A \ diere he sleeps ; with great good sense he avoids the hotels , and enjoys his midday meal Avith the haymakers , and sleeps the sleep of the Ayeary at a roadside inn . The freshness of this mode of procedure imparts freshness to his pages , and every scene that he describes exhibits equally an instinctive love of natural scenery , and a remarkable poAver of realizing it to the mind of his readers .
The Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninclc : edited by her relation , Christiana Hankin . In 2 vols .: Longman . —These tAvo volumes , the one autobiographical , the other biographical , present us with the life of a lady , Avho , although possessed of a mind almost masculine in its power and education , Avas still , during the greater part of her life , hovering betAveen three or four religious sects . The description of her doubts , her anxieties , her scruples , her pseudo-conversions and ultimate reception into the bosom
of the Methodist church , open up a strange picture of that waste of mental and bodily strength Avhich is too often the result of useless religious struggles . If Ave are really Christians , surely it matters little whether we are Quakers , or Moravians , or Methodists . Mrs . Schimmelpcnninck'however , Avas at one time almost induced to become a Unitarian , by the poAverfui preaching of Dr . Priestley , Avith Avhom she became associated in her early days - , but she seems , even while almost convinced , to have had a lingering
faith in that religion in Avhich she ultimately died . It must not be supposed however , that these volumes are filled up entirely Avith the description ot her devotional life . The narrative , both of Mrs . Selnmmelpeiuiinck herself , and of Mrs . llankhi , is lively , pointed , and interesting , full of anecdote , and abounding iu beautiful paintings of nature . Although born and bred in the principles of the Quakers , and receiving all her early feelings from them , she was extremely impressionable , and her habit of mind was more
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reviews Of New Books.
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS .
A Month in Yorkshire , by Walter White . London : Chapman & Hall , 1858 . —Mr . White is already well known in literature as the chronicler of his own pedestrianism ; Ave therefore open this volume with interest , and are not disappointed at its contents . Choosing Yorkshire for a months ramble , he started from London by boat to Hull , ' where ' there Avere very few attractions to induce him to stay—and Ave can easily understand Avhy he should pronounce the cemetery the pleasantest quarter of the town—he
shouldered his knapsack , and proceeded on his march after beauty . The network of railways , Avhich iioav intersect all quarters of the kingdom , affords every facility for striding over such tracts of country as may he considered flat , stale , and unprofitable ,-and Mr . ' White -appears' fully to have availed himself of this- means of bringing all points of interest together ; but it must not be supposed , therefore , that he is an indifferent pedestrian . The county of York is the largest in England , and it would be impossible , in the
short space of a month , to go over the ground he has traversed Avithout such assistance . Whatever locality our author fixes upon for exploration , he sets about it in right earnest . ' He is up at an early hour , and sallies forth with all that gaiety of heart attendant on anticipated pleasure , and accompanied by the trill of the lark , he proceeds on his way , brushing the dews—Avhich Coleridge calls the gems of morning ' from the grass in the
xalley , or the heather that grows down the mountain side . He is indifferent AA here he dines or A \ diere he sleeps ; with great good sense he avoids the hotels , and enjoys his midday meal Avith the haymakers , and sleeps the sleep of the Ayeary at a roadside inn . The freshness of this mode of procedure imparts freshness to his pages , and every scene that he describes exhibits equally an instinctive love of natural scenery , and a remarkable poAver of realizing it to the mind of his readers .
The Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninclc : edited by her relation , Christiana Hankin . In 2 vols .: Longman . —These tAvo volumes , the one autobiographical , the other biographical , present us with the life of a lady , Avho , although possessed of a mind almost masculine in its power and education , Avas still , during the greater part of her life , hovering betAveen three or four religious sects . The description of her doubts , her anxieties , her scruples , her pseudo-conversions and ultimate reception into the bosom
of the Methodist church , open up a strange picture of that waste of mental and bodily strength Avhich is too often the result of useless religious struggles . If Ave are really Christians , surely it matters little whether we are Quakers , or Moravians , or Methodists . Mrs . Schimmelpcnninck'however , Avas at one time almost induced to become a Unitarian , by the poAverfui preaching of Dr . Priestley , Avith Avhom she became associated in her early days - , but she seems , even while almost convinced , to have had a lingering
faith in that religion in Avhich she ultimately died . It must not be supposed however , that these volumes are filled up entirely Avith the description ot her devotional life . The narrative , both of Mrs . Selnmmelpeiuiinck herself , and of Mrs . llankhi , is lively , pointed , and interesting , full of anecdote , and abounding iu beautiful paintings of nature . Although born and bred in the principles of the Quakers , and receiving all her early feelings from them , she was extremely impressionable , and her habit of mind was more