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    dancing puzzle him much ; his imagination pictures to him their < c operatic or seductive fascinations / ' but fortunately he recollects that in the parable of the prodigal son , " the father ( the emblem of our Father which is in heaven ) makes merry and is glad ; ' * at all events he " concedes music and dancing to the laity / 7 He concludes his chapter by " giving judgment that no clergyman ought , m a clergyman , to be seen at a play-house . He may go

    disguised . We strongly suspect " Mother Church" would rather be spared such an advocate . In one of his attempts at her defence he calls Cobbett to his aid , whose language " contains , " he says , " more of the bitterness of truth than I am willing , in my own language , to display . " What a specimen of conscience ! Arguing with a dissenting preacher , Cobbett says : —

    " If I ask of what use his teaching is , he tells me , he must tell me , that his teaching is necessary to the salvation of souls . Well , says I , but why j iot leave that business to the Established Church , to which the people all pay tithes ? Oh , no ! says he , I cannot do that , because the Church does not teach the true religion . Well , says I , but true or false , if it serve for salvation , what signifies it ? " VoL 1 , p . 205 .

    The Curate , of course , maintains the " paramount necessity of upholding the Protestant Establishment in Ireland , as in every part of our dominions , even against a majority of numbers . " Altogether these volumes would be intolerable from their stupid absurdity , were they not amusing from the very gravity of their excess in those qualities , and from the serious mischief they will do the Black Bench by the unconscious exposures and ridiculous advocacy of their gross abuses of all religion and decency .

    Scripture Geography . By John R . Miles , Librarian and Secretary to the Athenaeum , Manchester . Johnson , Manchester . An excellent and almost indispensible companion to the study of biblical history , containing , m a catechistical form , a concise

    and interesting account of the past and present condition of all th ^ places mentioned in the old and new Testament . The maps of the most interesting sections of the Holy Land are clearly and beautifull y executed ; and the chronological synopsis of the most remarkable events recorded in sacred history , will be found extremely useful . Such a compendium of scriptural geography was much wanted , and Mr Miles has executed his task in a very able and efficient manner .

    Memoirs and Trials of the Political Martyrs of Scotland . Persecuted during the years 1793 and 1794 . William Tait , Edinburgh , 1887 . Reformers are iKfuch indebted to Mr Tait for this successful attempt to revive in their country ' s reverence the names of some

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/62/