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134 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Contempoeaey Germain" Iiitera.Tuhe No. I...
weary as that our of Sir readers Walter with Scott hackneyed , but will details refer them from to a life the so biograp well-known hy of
Dr To . Ebert the lover y for s further of pleasant details and . agreeable stories , we It can is recommend the fashion
the " Half FictionHalf Fact" of Jacob Corvinus . _* ' _, ponderance of many good of peop novel , le s to over condemn , more fiction sensible , thoug matter h the in immense our lending pre is
librariesmay prove that in this case the opinion of the many little Important affected , " aliment by the verdict of human of the life few is . the The social fact , is " , the that the noblest most
to study of mankind the natural is man and ;'' excusable and it is worse curiosit than y which useless animates to attemp the t repress
after young something , especially which as to shall the mysteries afford excitement of human and nature change . A emving and an
, most Impatience common of the phases ordinary of feeling routine with of every those day who life , are have amongst the world the
before them . The construction of the mind is as beautiful as that of the body , committin
and we cannot overstrain any one faculty without g a species of mental suicide . But the difficulty is to keep the via media—to dand to relthe bow
secure recreation without dissipating the min—ax without bias towards allowing poetry it to and become romance unstrung we . must "Where rememb there er is it too is unsafe strong
to a feed too much on such luscious , cates" if we would not destroy has our well taste for leaded simp in ler the food Introduction . But , on the to her other Dramas hand , , for Joanna the natural Baillie
curiosit p which makes those who lead a dull life desire to see something more y than the men and women down " in with buckr at am" whom they tea
of meetings watch difficulty in . their A and desire distress dail to y criticize walks is one , the which or sit conduct takes of its others rise in in natural ordinary circumstances human
in sympath haste y to j make and the our recreation own additions in itself to the is innocent Decalogue . Let or us to not invent be
, new offences for our fellow-men . We think the pen of Milton might liave described the triumphin Pandemoniumwhenba coup d ' etat
well under worth foot y in of the the name enemy of , of reli mankind gion , and God all ' , s g amusement ifts , were y tramp s handed led
, over The to be stories used b for efore evil us purposes are . characteristic for their simvery
• p with licity in and land earnestness unless . we The st liken yle is them such to as the we beautiful rarely meet little Engmay
Christmas tales , from the pen of Mr . Charles Dickens . The first of the series is entitled the " Way to Laugh" and is a good hit at
, of the " unsymp culture" atheti leads c character the ology of the for mere a life student which , who is built in the up nam by a e
dungeon . spreading wall its branches of books ap in , the till sunshine he envies , and the in the tree dull the insensibility power of
* Halb Miilir , halb Mehr . Jacob Corvinus . Berlin .
134 Notices Of Books.
134 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/62/
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