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Reviews Of New Books.
KEVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 71-5 , Great Queen-street , LincolnVInn-fields . ] " The Masonic Review" by Bro . Cobnelius MoonE . —We have received the first two numbers of the eighteenth volume of this valuable and interesting
Masonic miscellany , published at Cincinnati , United States .- —The Beview- is admirably arranged , and shows great Masonic knowledge on the part of the editor ; but if we are to judge from the various denunciations which its pages contain , our American Brethren are far from being so particular as they ought in inquiring into the character of those they introduce into our honoured Craft .
" Many Thoughts on Many Things ; being a Treasury of Reference selected from the Writings of the Known Great and the Great Unknown" By Henky Southgate . London : George Boutledge and Co . —Foremost among the Christmas books stands the work which bears the above title , and which , unlike most of its begilded and illustrated competitors for public favour , possesses the merit of being a magnificent Gift-book , not only for the present season , but appropriate to all times and seasons . " Many Thoughts on Many Things " will scarcely need to be commended by us to the literary world , since the want of a complete Dictionary of Quotations has long been acknowled and
ged deplored ; by the general reading Public it is sure to be pronounced a delightful work , and will be deemed a valuable acquisition to the library , and at the same time a charming book for the drawing-room table or the fireside ; while to the student it furnishes such a body of thought and opinion on every conceivable topic , as to render this single volume almost equivalent to a whole library . The compilation of this vast mass of literary materials must have occupied Mr . Southgate during many years ; but as we are led to understand in the Preface , the work has been a labour of love , and therefore doubtless has been prosecuted
with a perseverance and enthusiasm peculiar to amateurs ; the result is a work of reference in every way ample , but not redundant ; of decidedly high literary excellence , yet never crabbed or pedantic ; and though of an agreeable and genial character throughout , nevertheless a hook as much calculated to be of use to the scholar , the divine , or the piMic man , as it is likely to be abused by a class of readers who will resort to it as a store-house of ready-made ideas , rather than to profit by the suggestive teaching of the wisdom and thought which it enshrines .
Looking upon the work in no higher light than this , it will be invaluable to afterdinner orators , who are too apt to be always harping on one string . Thus we recollect a' few seasons ago , when a gentleman , who now shines as one of the minor luminaries in the legislature , served as sheriff for the city of London , he was . almost invariably called upon to return thanks for the Ladies , and he as invariably—at least fifty times in our own hearing—quoted the lines from Scott : —
"Oh , woman I in our hours of ease , Uncertain , coy , and hard to please , And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow
A ministering angel thou J " Such was the extent of learning of the worthy sheriff ; to whom such a work as this must have indeed proved a real blessing , by enabling him occasionally to vary his orations . But the work has a far higher object , and is of far greater value than that of being of mere utility to would-be orators . In fact , henceforth no library can be considered perfect without it , it being at once a ready book
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Reviews Of New Books.
KEVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS .
[ Publishers are requested to send works for review not later than the 20 th of the month , addressed to the Editor of the " Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , " 71-5 , Great Queen-street , LincolnVInn-fields . ] " The Masonic Review" by Bro . Cobnelius MoonE . —We have received the first two numbers of the eighteenth volume of this valuable and interesting
Masonic miscellany , published at Cincinnati , United States .- —The Beview- is admirably arranged , and shows great Masonic knowledge on the part of the editor ; but if we are to judge from the various denunciations which its pages contain , our American Brethren are far from being so particular as they ought in inquiring into the character of those they introduce into our honoured Craft .
" Many Thoughts on Many Things ; being a Treasury of Reference selected from the Writings of the Known Great and the Great Unknown" By Henky Southgate . London : George Boutledge and Co . —Foremost among the Christmas books stands the work which bears the above title , and which , unlike most of its begilded and illustrated competitors for public favour , possesses the merit of being a magnificent Gift-book , not only for the present season , but appropriate to all times and seasons . " Many Thoughts on Many Things " will scarcely need to be commended by us to the literary world , since the want of a complete Dictionary of Quotations has long been acknowled and
ged deplored ; by the general reading Public it is sure to be pronounced a delightful work , and will be deemed a valuable acquisition to the library , and at the same time a charming book for the drawing-room table or the fireside ; while to the student it furnishes such a body of thought and opinion on every conceivable topic , as to render this single volume almost equivalent to a whole library . The compilation of this vast mass of literary materials must have occupied Mr . Southgate during many years ; but as we are led to understand in the Preface , the work has been a labour of love , and therefore doubtless has been prosecuted
with a perseverance and enthusiasm peculiar to amateurs ; the result is a work of reference in every way ample , but not redundant ; of decidedly high literary excellence , yet never crabbed or pedantic ; and though of an agreeable and genial character throughout , nevertheless a hook as much calculated to be of use to the scholar , the divine , or the piMic man , as it is likely to be abused by a class of readers who will resort to it as a store-house of ready-made ideas , rather than to profit by the suggestive teaching of the wisdom and thought which it enshrines .
Looking upon the work in no higher light than this , it will be invaluable to afterdinner orators , who are too apt to be always harping on one string . Thus we recollect a' few seasons ago , when a gentleman , who now shines as one of the minor luminaries in the legislature , served as sheriff for the city of London , he was . almost invariably called upon to return thanks for the Ladies , and he as invariably—at least fifty times in our own hearing—quoted the lines from Scott : —
"Oh , woman I in our hours of ease , Uncertain , coy , and hard to please , And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow
A ministering angel thou J " Such was the extent of learning of the worthy sheriff ; to whom such a work as this must have indeed proved a real blessing , by enabling him occasionally to vary his orations . But the work has a far higher object , and is of far greater value than that of being of mere utility to would-be orators . In fact , henceforth no library can be considered perfect without it , it being at once a ready book