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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 ;
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 ;