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    NEW BOOKS. NOTICED BRIEFLY, BUT AFTER THOROUGH PERUSAL.

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    the whole work to the lovers of old books ; and must not forget to notice the pleasant surprise w exjptessed by Wartqn at the supposed difference

    of fortune between its author who lost a bishopric by writing it , and Amyot , the Frenchman , who was rewarded with an abbacy for translating it . Amyot himself afterwards became a bishop . We may add ,

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    Chapters on Early English Literature . By J . H . Hippisley Esq ., M * A , j > 8 vo , pp . 344 Moxon . We congratulate Mr Moxon on continuing to send forth publications worthy of the " bookseller

    of the poets , v—" himself a muse . THfe-irolume before us is the production of a man more than ordinarily ^ ersed in his subject , and ¦^ i ^^ m&w , though not a profound observer . He has made

    several acute and original remarks i on our early poets , the light in which they have been regarded at different periods , the impossibility of ^ modernizing them to advantage , ; and other interesting points in what lmay be called the middle depths < of literature ; and his warmth of

    ifeelmgis probably greater than it sseems , owing apparently to a somevtvhat ^ formalized or over-serious fcbrfeedW . He thinks that " reli-Bgpi *; Wery / " charity , " as Lord BBacon says ) " can never be carried tto excess I ! " though he thinks Dotherwise , when He speaks of the Uriah mid " Papists . " His wonder

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    / as a curious coincidence , that it was one of Aiiiydt ' s pupils and benefactors , —Heiiry the Second , —who gave a French bishopric to the lively Italian novelist , Bandello . Books

    were books in those days ; not batches , by the baker ' s dozen , turned out every morning ; and the gayest of writers were held in serious valtie accordingly .

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    ( p . 223 ) why the writings of Chaucer ' s inferiors " maintained an equal popularity with those of the great poet , " is easily explained by the sympathies of common-place ; and at p . 290 he begs the question ,

    with an aristocratic tone not pleasant in a man of letters , against what he calls a " vice very common among memafo , —that of ridiculing those who protect and maintain them . " Now masters no

    more protect and maintain servants , than servants protect and maintain the pretensions of their masters * It is a mutual bargain ; with a proud advantage on one side , too often abused by indifference or petulance , and the denial of a counter-right to complain , and the

    servant endeavours to balance it by pulling down the parlour in the kitchen * In comment upon a remark at p . 284 , it maybe observed , that Shakspeare is only more comic than tragic , because Nature is @o ; that is to say , she is happier than unhappy ; easier and more diverted , than diseased and thoughtful . Why does Mr H . always

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    20 $ New Books .

    New Books. Noticed Briefly, But After Thorough Perusal.

    NEW BOOKS . NOTICED BRIEFLY , BUT AFTER THOROUGH PERUSAL .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/65/