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196 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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4.—TJie Forbes Journal Winsl of Psycholo...
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3.—Eraser's Magazine For April. John W. ...
It century desp English has ised often is anatomists that certain seemed very , and discovery , to with it is all that equall which thei there r y tools they certain is a are and striking that now all for compelled similarity their fifty dissections years between to accept afterwards , i thi gnored s event the or
and remember man one the of wo that the rld most wonderful has beautiful ever roe possessed scene episodes in : the in I mean church the greatest Shakspeare yard production where ' s Hamlet * Haml of the et walks . ' greatest You in
ing among and the jesting _graves over , where the remains the brutal of and the ignorant dead . You clowns , remember are singing how and the jeer fine
tain knows imag all ination not that yet of he that the hold great the s dear grave Dani upon sh which earth thinker and is . being But he is s like thoug dug tirred Gothe at h by his he the feet wists takes spectacle is not destined of a , skull this albeit to , he con and he is - moved like the great German poet up
his that his as he imag speculative the thinks inati skull how on he faculties carries holds the mig him in beg hty his back in are hand to fallen two work , is thousand indeed . and Image , have the s years passed of sk decay ull , and , of away Alexander crow he . almost d In on a his ; moment believes and mind , in
brain his mind of the ' s eye scourge he contrasts and conqueror the putrid of mankind bone world with . and what Then it it is once the that contained great suddenl doctrine y , the he ,
of like to the Gothe indestructibility he , passes ins " into to of show an matter ideal how , p th hysical b at doctrine a long series whi , ch of in seizing successive his age it changes was difficult the
head grasp of Alexander , beg miht have been , y made to subserve the most ignoble , pur-. poses ; the substance bein g g always metamorphosed , never destroyed . ' Why , '
asks when Hamlet , just as , he * why is abou may t not to those pursu imagination e this train and trace of prosaic the idea noble s , natures he dust is stopped who of Alexander by always one of ?'
affectionate read those y men to impede of but facts the , the one narrow flig of ht -minded of genius practical Horatio . By , who his , side looking stands -upon , the all faithful thi are s as , the the
dre consider Horatio am of a so between , distempered ! Oh the what idea fancy a and p , icture objects the ! sense what that— a between 'twere contrast to the consider between imagination too H curiously amlet and and the to
was understanding Gothe ; . troubled ! 'Twere bhis to consider contemporaries too curiousl ; , and y thus to consider too often so speculation ! Even thu is s y
because stopped , idea genius is made chilled subordinate , and the play to and facts swell because of the the human external mind is repressed preferred ,
to the internal s are , and because the Horatios of , action discourage the Hamlets of
thought . "
196 Notices Of Books.
196 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
4.—Tjie Forbes Journal Winsl Of Psycholo...
4 . —TJie Journal of Psychological John Medicine Churchill and Mental Pathology Street . Edited by
Forbes _WinslowM . D . , New Burlington . , ' Charlotte Bront _£ a Psychological Study , ' is the title of a paper
in the April number , of this Quarterly , which will not fail to attract readers . The character of Miss _Bronte was in itself so rem
markable any the circumstances under which it was moulded so exceptionalthe , genius so vivid and impassioned , while the external life
was so , cold and constrained , that a finer or more generally interestlife Owing ing and subject , we a being conclude for so psycholog recentl , to the y ical passed difficulty stud from y it of among would treating us not , full a be difficult y easy and y freel to which find y a .
should either have restrained the attempt altogether , or , in the interests of the science of mental phenomena , should have been , whollyin _condenseci
disregarded , the writer does little more than present a
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/52/
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