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Reviews Of New Books.

REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS .

[ The 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 , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-ITields . ] Tintern Abbey : a Poem . By F . B . ErnBAisrs , Esq . F . A . S . London : Hall and Yirtne . — This beantifally illustrated work was

occasioned , as the author informs us , by a smart retort given to certain priests of the Romish church who expressed their hope of soon recovering their ecclesiastical tenure of it . Hence the poem breathes a spirit of solemn contemplation upon the great change the ruins have undergone , which , in one respect , gratifies the author , who justly remarks : —

" I love thee "better now in thy decay , "With thy deep silence and thy mouldring nave , As thou seein ' st crumhling to thy final day , And bending , dignified , to meet thy grave , " Than I had loved thee , if I could have seen Thee in thy early time of pride and jouth ;

For then thou wast with falsehood fill d , and sin ; But now thou tell'st a tale of solemn truth . " The notes in a postscript are valuable for their accuracy and research , and cannot fail to be pernsed with both profit and pleasure ; the poetic genius is considerable , and though unequal in its flight , owing , it appears to us , to hasty compilation , here and there , yet

there are clear marks of the author being in the right track upon Parnassus ; the sentiments do honour to the writer ' s sense and feeling , and when we say that nothing in the art of engraving can surpass the beauty of the plates , and the whole getting up of the book , we think we have said enough to recommend it to our readers as a most elegant addition to their drawing-room table .

The Poetical Pemams of Peter John Allan , JUsq . Smith , Elder , and Co . 65 , Cornhill . —We review some of our poetical productions first , as such works at present are apt tp be ignored by the practical public ; but the volume we now notice vindicates the high claims of poetry , and will induce in the reader that strange feeling called a melancholy pleasure . Except by Freemasonry , little is known of the

mind of our North American colonists , yet , from time to time , we get a book thence , like this one , to remind us that intellect of the highest order , like the spirit of Masonry itself , is not kept out by barriers more than the air we breathe ! Here are the poems of a young man cut off at the early age of twenty -three , and given to the public , after a lapse of live years , by a brother who loved him

with the fondest affection ; the pathos of his " Biographical Notice , " the whole tenor of the poems themselves , evidencing a noble and enlightened mind , combined with great gentleness and amiability ;

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1855-05-01, Page 31” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 1 June 2025, django:8000/periodicals/mmr/issues/mmr_01051855/page/31/.
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AMERICA. Article 54
TRAVELS BY A FREEMASON. Article 11
ON THE POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. Article 17
LONDON AND ITS MASONS. Article 1
ANIMAL AND HUMAN INSTINCT. Article 21
THE EMPEROR'S VISIT. Article 28
REV. BRO. OLIVER, D.D., VICAR OF SCOPWICK. Article 30
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS. Article 31
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 63
NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 38
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 40
METROPOLITAN. Article 43
PROVINCIAL. Article 45
SCOTLAND. Article 51
COLONIAL. Article 52
INDIA. Article 54
TURKEY. Article 56
METROPOLITAN LODGE MEETINGS FOR THE MONTH Of MAY. Article 57
LODGES OF INSTRUCTION. Article 59
CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION. Article 60
Obituary Article 60
NOTICE. Article 62
ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE. Article 62
NOTES ON ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH Article 6
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

Reviews Of New Books.

REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS .

[ The 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 , " 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn-ITields . ] Tintern Abbey : a Poem . By F . B . ErnBAisrs , Esq . F . A . S . London : Hall and Yirtne . — This beantifally illustrated work was

occasioned , as the author informs us , by a smart retort given to certain priests of the Romish church who expressed their hope of soon recovering their ecclesiastical tenure of it . Hence the poem breathes a spirit of solemn contemplation upon the great change the ruins have undergone , which , in one respect , gratifies the author , who justly remarks : —

" I love thee "better now in thy decay , "With thy deep silence and thy mouldring nave , As thou seein ' st crumhling to thy final day , And bending , dignified , to meet thy grave , " Than I had loved thee , if I could have seen Thee in thy early time of pride and jouth ;

For then thou wast with falsehood fill d , and sin ; But now thou tell'st a tale of solemn truth . " The notes in a postscript are valuable for their accuracy and research , and cannot fail to be pernsed with both profit and pleasure ; the poetic genius is considerable , and though unequal in its flight , owing , it appears to us , to hasty compilation , here and there , yet

there are clear marks of the author being in the right track upon Parnassus ; the sentiments do honour to the writer ' s sense and feeling , and when we say that nothing in the art of engraving can surpass the beauty of the plates , and the whole getting up of the book , we think we have said enough to recommend it to our readers as a most elegant addition to their drawing-room table .

The Poetical Pemams of Peter John Allan , JUsq . Smith , Elder , and Co . 65 , Cornhill . —We review some of our poetical productions first , as such works at present are apt tp be ignored by the practical public ; but the volume we now notice vindicates the high claims of poetry , and will induce in the reader that strange feeling called a melancholy pleasure . Except by Freemasonry , little is known of the

mind of our North American colonists , yet , from time to time , we get a book thence , like this one , to remind us that intellect of the highest order , like the spirit of Masonry itself , is not kept out by barriers more than the air we breathe ! Here are the poems of a young man cut off at the early age of twenty -three , and given to the public , after a lapse of live years , by a brother who loved him

with the fondest affection ; the pathos of his " Biographical Notice , " the whole tenor of the poems themselves , evidencing a noble and enlightened mind , combined with great gentleness and amiability ;

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