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    pedestrian traveller , who turns out to be but a suspicious character , —a sort of sleight-of-hand tricks-man : he is , however , handsome ; gains the favour of the ladies ( who take diffeient sides between the landlord and landlady ) , and has their permission to play off his tricks . He orders an old carpet to be hung up in the room ; they all go behind it except Martha , who thinks he is the Old One , and will have nothing to do with those unholy

    attempts . Old women are everywhere enemies to radical reform . The change takes place without her concurrence . The old booth is transformed into an elegant temple . The conjurer becomes Mercury ; Phone , the genius of the opera ; Pathos , of tragedy ; Nymphe represents nature , or rather natural taste ; and as such , she is tormented by the wanton boys , who represent art , and flies for protection to Mercury . He explains everything like a showman ; and the only fault is that his speeches are too eloquent and beautiful for the occasion .

    Another Wan wir bringen , a continuation of the preceding , was produced at Halle , on the opening of a theatre there in 1814 . We have here Mercury , the three Fates , Melody , the Genius of dramatic art . Rhymed odes and ballads are introduced with great pomp of rhetoric ; the only substitute for that passion which is necessarily excluded from the allegorical mask .

    Theater reden . —For which we have no expression of equal comprehensiveness . We call our stage-speeches prologues , epilogues , and occasional addresses . There are eight of these . —Models of compositions in their way . Never comic—occasionally a slight tinge of humour , but , for the greater part , earnest yet unimpassioned , temperate contemplations of life , art , and the occasion . They

    are all , except one , in the usual dramatic blank verse .

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    The general tendency of thought and feeling among the benevolent , for a considerable time past , towards the establishment of national or universal education , is as decisively prophetic of a grand amelioration of the state of humanity , as if a new song of angels had been sent to celebrate its origin . The concentrated

    mind of humanity is omnipotent ; and in proportion as the desires of its component members converge , the probability that those desires will work out their own satisfaction , is strengthened into certainty . Such a convergence has never been more remarkable than in the instance of popular education , in the advocacy of which , men of the most opposite views on other subjects have * A Plan of Universal Education . By William Frend , Esq . London , Fell owes . Popular Education in France , &c . &c By John H . Moggridge , Esq . ] { London * Longman and Co . .... .-w _ ~~*^*

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    Goethe ' s Work * . 689

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    NATIONAL EDUCATION * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/39/