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ever is associated with the secrecy of the cloister rivets at once public attention . There is , however , far less forced spirit and party prejudice about this tale than meet us in most of those which are framed upon antagonism of creeds . The characters are well drawn .
the feelings natural , and the incidents pathetic , without reducing the reader to the verge of melancholy insanity . "We only regret the termination , which though happy , is so much so , that we should have liked to hear it less curtly developed . It is a story well worth perusal .
" Married Women " accomplish here what they generally achieve in actual life , — -a powerful plot ; and the author of " Country Beauties ' has well supported her claim to be considered as an admirable decypherer of human life . There are scenes in this book so well drawn , and personalities so well put forth , that had the volume come earlier to hand we should have given extracts from them . The only fault we
find in this novel is what occurs in those preceding , namely , that the authoress fails in doing herself and her subject justice , by writing too rapidly . She throws off thrilling positions , and produces sketches of individuality , which , had she allowed herself time , would have assured a finished picture . We must , however , congratulate Mr . Newby on his " mille ressources " of clever , writers , when he can send us three such good specimens—would they had arrived earlier!—in a batch .
Curiosities of Londopi . By John Timbs , F . S . A . Bogue , Fleets street . —We have in this full and very compendious volume , the result of twenty-seven years' elaboration , and something like the recollection of fifty , and it fully justifies the fagie of the author of " Laconics , " " Knowledge for the People , " " The Year-Book of
Facts , " and many others equally erudite and valuable . It is the work of an industrious and learned man , who has been engaged for years upon the diffuse labours of the press , and has enjoyed opportunities for collecting and acquiring information upon the specialty which he has selected for illustration . Plis book is a " full"
bookfull of anecdote , full of information , full of good readable ratiocination . All his brethren have united to praise him for it , with , we believe , a solitary exception . As the necessity for such a work was urgent , so its diffusion will , we predict , be extensive , as a standard reference upon points unsparingly investigated as to " dates , names , and circumstances , " and clothed moreover in a popular and extremely entertaining form .
Life of William JEtty , M . A . By Alexander Gilchrist . Bogue , Fleet-street . —Btty , the seventh of a family of ten , was horn at York , in the year 1787 , and , the son of a spice-maker , " derived his first notions of art from the gilt gingerbread his mother sold . " After being in a printing-office until the age of nineteen , he commenced
painting , came to his relatives' house in London , obtained an introduction to Opie , and gives this account of his first idea of devoting his pencil to female form : — " When I found that all the great painters of antiquity had become thus great through painting Great
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ever is associated with the secrecy of the cloister rivets at once public attention . There is , however , far less forced spirit and party prejudice about this tale than meet us in most of those which are framed upon antagonism of creeds . The characters are well drawn .
the feelings natural , and the incidents pathetic , without reducing the reader to the verge of melancholy insanity . "We only regret the termination , which though happy , is so much so , that we should have liked to hear it less curtly developed . It is a story well worth perusal .
" Married Women " accomplish here what they generally achieve in actual life , — -a powerful plot ; and the author of " Country Beauties ' has well supported her claim to be considered as an admirable decypherer of human life . There are scenes in this book so well drawn , and personalities so well put forth , that had the volume come earlier to hand we should have given extracts from them . The only fault we
find in this novel is what occurs in those preceding , namely , that the authoress fails in doing herself and her subject justice , by writing too rapidly . She throws off thrilling positions , and produces sketches of individuality , which , had she allowed herself time , would have assured a finished picture . We must , however , congratulate Mr . Newby on his " mille ressources " of clever , writers , when he can send us three such good specimens—would they had arrived earlier!—in a batch .
Curiosities of Londopi . By John Timbs , F . S . A . Bogue , Fleets street . —We have in this full and very compendious volume , the result of twenty-seven years' elaboration , and something like the recollection of fifty , and it fully justifies the fagie of the author of " Laconics , " " Knowledge for the People , " " The Year-Book of
Facts , " and many others equally erudite and valuable . It is the work of an industrious and learned man , who has been engaged for years upon the diffuse labours of the press , and has enjoyed opportunities for collecting and acquiring information upon the specialty which he has selected for illustration . Plis book is a " full"
bookfull of anecdote , full of information , full of good readable ratiocination . All his brethren have united to praise him for it , with , we believe , a solitary exception . As the necessity for such a work was urgent , so its diffusion will , we predict , be extensive , as a standard reference upon points unsparingly investigated as to " dates , names , and circumstances , " and clothed moreover in a popular and extremely entertaining form .
Life of William JEtty , M . A . By Alexander Gilchrist . Bogue , Fleet-street . —Btty , the seventh of a family of ten , was horn at York , in the year 1787 , and , the son of a spice-maker , " derived his first notions of art from the gilt gingerbread his mother sold . " After being in a printing-office until the age of nineteen , he commenced
painting , came to his relatives' house in London , obtained an introduction to Opie , and gives this account of his first idea of devoting his pencil to female form : — " When I found that all the great painters of antiquity had become thus great through painting Great