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TPM Edinburgh Qatynet library r , Vol . XJ £ IJ . —Life of Henry the jEighth By Patrick Fraser Tytier * EdinWgh : QfiW and IJoyd . 1837 .
The Edinburgh Cabinet Library , amidst a host of deserving rivals , tnaindiins its character of being an highly useful and entertaining work ; and no small meed of praise is due to the pub- * lishers for the judgment with which the subject of every sudces-i siv& volume ha& been selected . The Biography of Henry VlII , ih cbnnectiofi with the history of the age in which he lived , is ably nitrated ; and a varietv of details are introduced , which , if not
altogether new , have only been recently collected . The view which Mr Tytter takes of the character of Henry VIII differs from that of Siharon Turner ; inasmuch as Mr Tytler describes him to have been a vain , insolent , capricious , profligate tyrant , in whose dark portrait will not be found one redeeming moral feature . All we can say is , that the latter is evidently the farti ^ t view , and we can recommend the work as being worthy of tHe p £ n of an author who has already distinguished himself in hisfo ^ rical literature .
Canadianai containing Sketches of Upper Canada , and the Crisis of its Political Affairs . By W . B . Wells . 1837 . What part of the civilized world over which Great Britain has extended'her political jurisdiction has not been darkened by he * misrule ? Here we have the instance of a deputation crossing the Atlantic to communicate with the Colonial Secretary concerning the troubles in the Canadas , and refused even an audience with the Bashaw who holds the seals in office ! This
circumstance has led to the publication of the present brochure * \ t& first part contains an account of the early settlements of Canada , with a description of the soil , climate , and habits of the Canadians ; its second part discusses the grievances of which they complain , the injustice of Whig and Tory policy , and the
immediate necessity of correcting a half century's misrule . The present state of the Canadas demands the most serious attention of the British Government ; and the evidence wjiich Mr l ^ ells lias \\ exe adduced ought to be fairly heard ; he relates a variety Ojf facts w ^ ich must oe taken into consideration before any equitable judgment on the subject can be formed .
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott , Bart . Vol . I . Amidst the scrambling of p eriodical pens to give the earliest and fullest' account of the first volume of these M ^ mbfrsJ'iilr ^ re can tie little doubt but ihat we sfiaff stand quite alone amidst * all the press—daily , weekly , monthly , and quarterly—in venturing any strong objection of piy Kinct fo "fhis publication . But
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/65/
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