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| 94 Letters from the Aegean .
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Mr . Emerson , as he informs us in his Preface , is " rather to be considered as an editor than as an author ; " he has found " many characteristic sketches of manners and scenery , anecdotes , remarks , adventures , and sunsets , stories of Greek damsels and English gentlemen , journals and suggestions of travelling companions , " &c , &c . ; and , with permission of the several authors and of his publisher , he has reduced them ail to a geographical romance , a sort of Anacharsis the younger , in which every thing is told in the first person plural .
<( The sun was slowly sinking behind the range of Hyinettus , and the hills of Attica , as we wei g hed anchor from Cape Colonna , and steered for the narrow strait between Zea and Cythnos . " After landing at Syra , and partaking of " grapes of the purest amber sprinkled with red spots , " we proceed to Smyrna , in company with a young
Sciote lady who had narrowly escaped the massacre two years before . " Here one cannot but wish for a single narrator , a man who saw and heard what he tells us . If the grapes at Syra be of pure amber sprinkled with
red spots , it is no concern of ours who saw and tasted them ; but when we come to a young Sciote , « ' who , from a place of imperfect security , was an involuntary witness to the murder of her miserable sisters , " who " smeared herself with the still oozing blood of her mother , " and whose delicate hand was sliced by a Turk , in the hasty attempt to draw off s < a ring which had
been too dearly worn , the gift of her affianced husband ; " when we are presented to a lady of such " romantic biography , " we become impatient to know who it was that sat by her side and heard her story . We do not question the principal facts , but we want to have it on good and individual authority that ' she sat all day on the deck , while she was in sight of her native island , and seemed straining to recognize some scene that had once
been familiar , " and that " she turned her back upon the Turkish coast and its hated hills , " on the opposite tack . For want of knowing whether it was Mr . Emerson , or Mr . J . J . Scoles , or Mr . R . J . Tennant , or Mr . Edward H . Thomson , who sailed in the vessel , we fairly lose sight of them all , and are no nearer to the young lady than if we had read of her in St . James ' s Chronicle . Tale the second , which occupies nearly ten pages , is a right marvellous and melancholy history of an Englishman who had the misfortune to attend clinical lectures next door to a madhouse : ¦
——^ ¦— -- - . . . i ~ i . » - ¦ i _ i ' ¦ ¦ ¦ a i i , n i a ~ * Letters from tho jfSgean . Hy James Emerson , Esq . 2 Vols . 8 vo .
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Does * he thunder , does he lighten , does he afflict this poor roan ? Behold ! his sun enlightens his habitation , his rain refreshes his fields , his gentle breeze fans and animates him every day , his revelation lies ever open before him , his throne of mercy is ever accessible to him ; and will you , rash Christian , will you mark him out for vengeance ? I repeat it again , imitate your heavenly Father , and at least suspend your anger till that day when the Lord will make manifest the counsel of men ' s hearts , and then shall every man have praise of God . "
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LETTERS FROM THE JEGEAN . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/42/
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