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of education , and shows that the writer can illustrate school government as well as * Political Economy . '
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Bible Stories for the use of Children . Part IL containing Stories from the New Testament By the Rev . S . Wood , B . A . Simpkin . In this selection Mr . Wood has avoided a practice to which our reviewer took exception in his first series , viz . that of uniformly appending a formal improvement to th ^ extract . He has judged , and we think rightly , that explanations are oftener needed than reflections ; and he therefore usually leaves the narrative to teach its own moral and make it 9 own impression . We should like such expressions as ' Our
Lord here means to say , to be omitted in a repriut . The explanatory notes are , as they should be , brief and satisfactory . The selection and arrangement are good , and the volume altogether , both from the nature of its materials and the mode of its execution , is adapted for greater usefulness than the former , of which ( notwithstanding the success of that publication ) we think this should have been so independent as to adapt it for distinct circulation . An additional title-page would have sufficed for that purpose .
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Remarks in Refutation of an Extraordinary Story of a Supernatural Appearance , related by the Rev . R . Warner in his * Literary Recollections . ' By the Rev . T . Jervis . JLondonr Hunter . Mr . Warner ' s story is of a prophetic dream and spectral appearance of a son of Lord Shelburne , afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne . It is related very circumstantially , and seemingly well authenticated . But
Mr . Jervis was at the time residing in Lord Shelburne ' s family as tutor to the very youth of whom these marvels are told . He shows the incorrectness of the story in almost every particular , and utterly demolishes the credibility of the main incidents , one of which was said to have been told to himself by Dr . Priestley , in a conversation which he assures us never passed . Thanks bje to Providence for the printingpress ! Such a tale in manuscript might have escaped the eye of
perhaps the only man living who could have directly and completely refuted it ; or his manuscript refutation might have failed of such publicity and perpetuity as would alone prevent the tale being incorporated with what passes for authentic history . Dr . Johnson would have inflicted his frown , and almost his fist , on any man who dared to breathe a doubt of anything half so plausible as this appeared to be . ' Ghosts and visions are too far gone now , to have been preserved by it , but still the specimen is a good one of the utility of that winnowing machine which renders so much service in the separation of truth aud falsehood .
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The Druid , a Tragedy ; with Notes on the Antiquities and Early History of Ireland . By Thomas Cromwell . The Tragedy is very spiritedly written , and the notes are exceedingly curious and interesting . They contain a mass of antiquarian information , which is appropriately introduced and discussed in a philosophical ppirit .
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Critical Notice * . —Remarks , tyc . 57 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/71/
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