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Essay on the Right of Hindoos over Ancestral Property * according to the Law of Bengal , By Rajah Rammohun Roy . Calcutta , 1830 ; reprinted , London , 1832 . It is only possible for us just to mention this publication ; but we cannot allow even the reprint of a legal discussion , by the great reformer of India , to take place in London without recording it in our pages .
An early opportunity will happily be afforded us , by the volume of * Remarks on East India Affairs , ' now in the press , to say more of the opinions , views , and wishes of the illustrious author than we could do on the present occasion . In this pamphlet some recent decisions of the civil courts in Bengal , which appear to have the effect of declaring " , * every disposition , by a father , of his ancestral real property , without the sanctions of his sons and grandsons , to be null and
void , ' are combated with great acuteness and research , and shown to be inconsistent with the previous exposition of the Hindoo law which had always obtained in Bengal , as well as * with the principles of justice , with reason , or with regard to the future prosperity o £ the country . ' The Rajah is evidently fighting against an evil with which England is not unacquainted , and we hope he may successfully resist its extension in India .
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A History of the Italian Republics , with a View of the Origin , Progress , and Fate of Italian Freedom . By J . C . L . De Sismondi ( Vol . 27 of Dr . Lardner ' s Cabinet Cyclopaedia . ) A book full of instruction and of feeling ; most delightful yet most painful ; and to be read by all who care for fact or for theory ; for politics or for poetry ; for the past or the future . It was a bold and happy thought of Dr . Lardner ' s , that of asking from Sismondi , who has produced so many on the subject , a single volume on the republics
of Italy . Never was a volume of history so instinct with life . The author came to his subject in every way pre-eminently qualified to give it interest—his mind , memory , and heart , all full of it . His knowledge extensive and accurate , his research profound , his principles elevated , his style clear and . pure , his feelings ardent , and his expression eloquent ;—there is nothing to desiderate , either for the author or the subject , unless it be that he may yet live to witness and record the resurrection of that liberty of which he has described the destruction and pronounced the funeral eulogy .
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The Annual Biography and Obituary . Longman . 1832 . Sixteen volumes of this work show that the public have an interest in it , and that its general plan and execution are not unsatisfactory . The latter might be improved ; though it would be unreasonable to expect the pains to be taken , or the power to be employed , on an annual volume , including so many subjects , which may be demanded for the
higher pretensions of the permanent biographical record of an illustrious individual . The purpose is sufficiently answered if we have a tolerably complete view of the extent to which , within the preceding year , Death has transferred to his own dominions those who by their virtues or vices , their talents , station , acquirements , or adventures , had made themselves conspicuous here . We can afford to wait for the more
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2 tS Critical Notices . *—Political Sciende , History , and Biography .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/68/
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