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is a truthful vigour in this work which demolishes at once all the ape * culations and misrepresentations of the Halls and Trollopes . The author has given the best account of that extraordinary woman , Francis Wriffht , which we have met with . Vide Chapter 1 , 7 , 11 . There is
also some curious statement about New Harmony and Mr . Owen ' s doings there . The Backwood and native Indian pictures are capital . But the remarks on American society , manners , and institutions , are the most valuable portion of the book , and very valuable they are . The influence of having ( by the elective franchise ) a share in making the laws on the habit of obedience to the laws , is illustrated by some very striking anecdotes . The effect , and the present necessity of the ballot is also shown bv facts which indicate that , * were it not for the
• r protection afforded by the ballot , the Americans would be fully as corrupt , and would exercise the franchise as little in accordance with the public interest , as the English and Irish who enjoy the freedom of corporate towns . —( p . 226 . ) Its abolition would , if so , soon rob them of the happy peculiarity which he afterwards describes , —( p . 229 . ) viz ., that the grades of American society want two which exist in England , ' the highest and the lowest classes . ' It would soon cease to be the
fact , that ' the only class who live on the labour of others , and without their own personal exertions , are the planters in the south . ' Of the legal provision indicated in the following quotation we were not aware : ' I here ( at Marion in Ohio ) saw gazetted three divorces , all of which had been granted on the applications of the wives . One , on the ground of the husband ' s absenting himself for one year : another , on account of a blow having been given : and a third , fot general neglect . There are few instances of a woman ' s being refused a divorce in the western country , as dislike is very generally , and very
rationally , supposed to constitute a sufficient reason for granting the ladies their freedom . '—p . 55 . Opposite the title-page we have an engraved fac-simile of the Lead ' i ? ig Article in the Cherokee Phoenix ' , of July 3 J , 1830 ) and the work contains some indignant animadversions on the conduct of the American government towards that and other Indian tribes which had made some progress towards a state of civilization .
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The History of Charlemagne . By G . P . R . James , Esq . 8 vo . Longman , 1832 . This is intended to be the first of a series of works , ' illustrating the History of France by the Lives of her Great Men / The biographies will be connected by historical dissertations on the intervening periods . Judging by the present volume , which indicates great industry and competent talent , we augur well of the series . Such a plan of writing history is a very pleasant one , and must attract many readers who would shrink from its study in the form in which it is usually pre > sented .
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Letters for the Press ; on the Feelings \ Passions , Manners , and Pursuits of Men . By the late Francis Roscommon , Esq . 1832 . Every book suits somebody ; and this book will suit those respectable persons who like something' * good' to read ; something which may be
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Critical Notices . - —Ramble iti America * Sec . © 47
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/71/
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