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    pher chiefly to the idle , the envious , the half-informed , and the most worthless portion of mankind . " The larger portion of his admirers may doubtless be so classed ; but at page 161 , our author says of Rochefoucault , that " it cannot be denied , notwithstanding their defects , that his maxims constitute a body of intelligence , by which every one may profit according to the depth

    of his understanding" The style of Mr Bucke is very oldfashioned , though often terse and racy ; he is rather pedantically profuse of learned authorities , many of which are very twaddlesome , and his taste in the selection of English poets is no great matter . In other respects , this is one of the most interesting works of science that was ever written . It is full of amusement

    and knowledge ; a book , the study of which will be equally pleasure and profit to most of the young and many of the old . The author shows himself in his Preface to be perfectly conscious of all the merit his critics can discover in his elaborate production , and as this forestalling of praise will hurt the self-love of many of the tribe , the said Preface may influence the " opinion " in no trifling degree ; but they may just as well leave off fuming , and admit that Mr Bucke's account of his work and of himself , is little short of the truth .

    Memoirs of Madame Malibran . By J . Nathan . A more fulsome production than this never issued from the press , nor was the press ever disgraced by a more catch-penny tirade , indecently and most ostentatiously thrust forth under the mask of feeling . The thing is entirely compiled from the newspaper accounts ; with the exception of one or two absurd letters , a few

    sentences of almost insane bombast , meant for the pathos of grief , and other Advertisements of Mr Nathan . " Light sorrows speak —great grief is dumb . " But this gross trash was whipped through the press , and pelted into the market , almost before the unfortunate and accomplished lady was cold in her grave ! One only touch of conscience in Mr Nathan , manifests itself in the

    uncomfortable anxiety with which he desires that his book may not be " measured by the selfish and vulgar scale of the Ready Reckoner / " Well might he fear—but how could he possibly doubt the public perception of the fact . The " Ready Reckoner " was a most unlucky term for him to use . He has re-christened himself thereby with an appropriate cognomen , which will designate his character as long as he lives . But look , Sir , only look what you have been about!—" A few months ago , in the ' Sunday Times ' journal , an extract was made from my work , * Musurgia Vocalis , ' of some encomiastic remarks on the peerless performance of Malibran . Her observation , being called to the passage , it became the subject of a green-room conversation , ia .

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    Critical Notices * 57 *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/10/