On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (3)
-
MONTHLY REPORT OF GENERAL LITERATURE.
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Monthly Report Of General Literature.
MONTHLY REPORT OF GENERAL LITERATURE .
Untitled Article
Travels in North America in the Yean 182 ? <* nd 1828 . By Captain Basil Ha % R . N . 3 Vok . 8 vo . Cadell , Edinburgh ; Simpkin , London . The Borderers . By the Author of the Spy , &c . 3 Vols . I 2 mo . CoH * urn .
The Venetian Bracelet \ the Lost Pleiad ; the History of the Lyre ; and other Poerm . By L . E . L , 12 mo . Longman « ^ he London University Magazine * Jfo . I . for October , 1829 . Hurst . The Edinburgh Review . No . XCVlU . The Westminster Meview * Nom XXII . The Forg-et-me-Notfor 1830 .
It * has long been felt as a defect in the MonvthlyRepository that its notice pf the current Literature of the day is irregular , imperfect , and disproportionate ; at some times a much larger portion of its pages than at others has been occupied by this topic ; many publication * of subordinate character have been
amply criticised , while others of high Interest and enduring importance have been passed over sub silentio ; and there has been that want of consistency in the principles , both of selection and of reviewing * which must needs arise from depending so largely as we have hitherto
done , in this matter , upon voluntary contributions . Arrangements have been made by which it is hoped that in future this evil will be obviated . The present article is designed to be the commencement of a series of Monthly Reports of General Literature . Elaborate Criticism
will not be attempted . It would require much more space than can properly be withdrawn from the more important and peculiar objects of our work . The promotion of a pure Theology and an enlightened Philanthropy must ever be paramount , with us , to tjie claims of
mere Literature on our attention . At the same time , it does appear to be prac-. ticable , and that even without assigning to this topic any considerable degree of prominence or amplitude in our pages beyond what it has hitherto occupied , but simply by more attention to arrangement and proportion within the narrow
Untitled Article
limits which must be allotted to it , to beep up such a supply of information on the publications continually issuing from the press , as will be both gratifying and useful to many of our readers . Our notices will necessarily be very brief ; but we shall endeavour always to ensure their correctness and preserve their
impartiality . We shall not be in such breathless haste as always to give account of every publication of interest within the month ; nor must our month be expected to extend beyond the middle of that whach intervenes between the appearance of our own numbers . Something of latitude and of retrospection must be allowed . Still it is intended
that , in geueral , our observ ^ Um& should keep pace , at a very short distance , with the actual progress of the publishing world . They must do so to answer one end which we have in view ; which is , to render such assistance as we . can to those of our readers who are new-bookbuyers , either as individuals or in connexion , with societies .
There is another object , and that a very important one , which will also be steadily pursued . The prevailing character , tone , and tendency of the Literature of the day , cannot but deeply interest us as friends of religion and morality . To observe , examine , aud report upon it , with this peculiar reference , does , indeed , seem to be imperatively
required of us . Nor will it , perhaps be seldom that in- so wide a field , and which is beyond the beat of our Watchman , whose occupation is made sufficiently arduous by the delinquencies of the theological public , there will be matter affecting us as Unitarians , which it is expedient to notice , and which will come more conveniently into this department than any other . We shall commence our labours by
making use of the retrospective privilege just claimed to present our readers with the following description , from Captain HaWs Travels in the United States , of Dr . Channing ' s resumption of his ministerial duties after their Interruption by illness . He has not named the preacher , but there is no doubt of its being the illustrious individual whom we have mentioned . It must be remembered that the passage describes tjie impression ,
Untitled Article
( 790 )
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 790, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/46/
-