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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 137
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FOREIGN LITERATURE.
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1 Antenna ? which , is heralded with more pretence , contains a few good linessome rather good versesand not one thoroughly good
, , poem . There is facility in writing , and , spite of many impracticable linesa certain command of rhythm . Unluckily _the" poems which _,
embod , y the best ideas are the most carelessly expressed , and in those where the ring of the verse is really good , the thought is
either poor , or so lengthily spun out as to lose its point and value . * The Seasons ' is perhaps the best of Mr . Jewitt ' s attempts .
The last work on our list is possibly the one to which our first of paragrap the ' Pebbles h is most and app Shells licable _? but . We i The cannot Epithalamium positivel ' y is object the simp to any lest
and best written . It is but fair to say , that neither in this volume nor in Mr . Jewitt ' s is there any of the false straining after effect , or
the startling exaggeration of thought and expression , which at one time threatened to make those of our young poets , whose writings
were simply inoffensive and pretty , positively repulsive and
objectionable .
Notices Of Books. 137
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 137
Foreign Literature.
FOREIGN LITERATURE .
JReise in Istrien _, Dalmatian , und Montenegro . —By J . GL Kohl . ( Concluding notice . )
In referring to the recent hostilities between the Turks and Montenegrinsa leading journal has alluded to these mountaineers , as
standin , on about the same level of civilizationor non-civilization as the D g yaks of Borneo , and on the ground of th , eir unquestionably ,
barbarous practice of displaying the heads of their enemies as trophies ; but the writers in question seem to have forgotten that
it is not much more than a hundred years since Temple Bar was similarldecorated .
The recognition y of the right of private revenge for bloodshed among them , is also undoubtedly a relic of barbarism , but scarcely
as much so as the institution that still nourishes in full vigor among our neihbours across the channel , and can hardly be considered as
completel g y extinct among ourselves . All things considered , the people of Montenegro do not appear to
occupy a much lower status than the Scotch Highlanders before the dispersion of the clans , or than the Homeric Greeks , with whom
they have many striking points of resemblance . The immediate occasion of Mr . Kohl ' s excursion to Cetinge , the
capital of the little State , was to pay a visit to its prince , the Vladika , as he is called , the temporal and spiritual head of the community ,
whose character and position taken conjointly he describes , not without reason , as " unique in the world . "
shep " herd A literary of souls man , of and hig the h culture leader , a of statesman an army , and of twenty legislator thousand , a Christian
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 137, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/65/
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