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    We feel that comment on th 6 impassioned strength of these scenes would be superfluous . The effect is heightened by the discourse of the brothers , when , on Reuben leaving them , they recover the use of their senses . Levi first speaks : — " Is this the May-born Reuben , whose low song Ever beguii'd bis hearers of some tears ? Is this the gentle brother of our land , The minstrel of all revels and all hymns , The first to pity and the last to rave ?"—p . 80 .

    Our limits will not permit us to do any justice to the character of Phraxanor . She is represented as a woman " exalted and abandoned , artful , voluptuous , and cruel . " Such a woman , powerfully described as she is here , cannot be treated of in a small space . We only quote a few lines , to give an idea of her : —

    " Phraxanor . I am a woman , and am proud of it . We are content that man shall take the lead , Knowing he ever will look back on us With doting eye , not caring how he steps . Walking thus blindly , we may guide him so That he shall turn which way shall please us best : So we can beckon him where ' er we will , And lead him ever round about his grave , And in whene ' er we list . "—p . 120 .

    But finely as the whole action is conducted in which she is concerned , up to the return of Potiphar , it sinks with his entrance into a lengthened marital lecture , in which Potiphar ' s good-man gabyism is carried to such an extent as makes us believe that the author intended this for the comic part of his drama . It has the effect of one of Milton ' s jokes : —

    " The elephant , to make them sport , Writhed his proboscis lithe . " Towards the close , though there is a constant recurrence of splendid poetry , there are evident marks of haste and a desire to conclude \ and , with the exceptions we have made , there is throughout a want of individuality in the characters introduced . The magicians , for example , might as well be called by any pther name .

    We have room but for one more extract , and amongst the numbers that crowd upon us , we take part of the description > f Pharaoh in the triumphal procession at the installation of Toseph as Ruler in Egy pt : — " I did but glimpse His car , for ' twas of burnished gold . No eye Save that of eagles could confront the blaze

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    162 Dramatic Recollections *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/36/