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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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Views of the Architecture of the Heavens . In a Series of Letters to a Lady . By J . P . Nichol , LL . D ., F . R . S . E ., Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow . 8 vo . pp . 226 . William Tait ; Simpkin and Marshall ; John
Cummmg . Were some kind astronomer to invite us to spend an evening in his observatory , to direct his instruments for us , and talk to us for the whole evening about the wonders of which a glimpse was
vouchsafed us , we could hardly derive more pleasure from our visit than is to be gathered from Dr Nicholas delightful volume . It is written in a series of letters originally addressed to a lady , and constitutes no formal treatise on
astronomy , but is a familiar exposition of the most recent additions that have been made to that science . The author tells us that he has been induced to publish these
letters in consequence of a regret , which he believes to be very widely felt , that the discoveries made in recent years should continue comparatively unknown , and concealed amid the varied and massive collections of o \ ir learned societies , " unfitted to fulfil the best purpose
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of truth , which is to instruct and elevate the general mind . " Dr Nichol possesses qualifications for a highly popular writer ; he is enthusiastically interested in his subject , and warms into a strain of admiring wonder as he opens
upon the most gorgeous objects m the scenes he brings before the reader . And yet , though thus warm , and even figurative in his language , it is never other than admirably clear and intelligible . The reader is never at a loss for a
meaning ; but the teacher and the taught go hand in hand to view the firmaments .
borne speculative allusions to the creation of the marvellous beauties of the Universe it would have been impossible to avoid in a work of the kind , and that part of the subject is treated in the most enlarged and elevated spirit . Dr Nichol writes with a hopefulness
worthy of the knowledge which inspires it , and finds " Good in everything . " We would fain make many extracts , but our space is scarcely so wide as even a single firmament , and we must conclude with recommending the book most cordially to our readers , especially to such as have children ; it is fit for all
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Is sfl&teh'd ups star-ward : I can neither follow , Nor cail J touch the gross earth any more ! Pray for nte > gentlemen !—but breathe no bles ^ ngs — - v Let not a blessing sweeten your , dr / ad prayers—I wish no blessinfJp ^ nt ^ r cotdfKbcar their weight ; For I am left I know not where or how : But pray for me—my soul is buried here . [ Sinks down upon the body . Mid . " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight , " And burned is Apollo ' s laurel bough ! "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/68/
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