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made for our little folks in this great Christmas feast . The Juvenile Keepsake retains undimi Dished the excellence which called forth our hearty commendations ou its first appearance . It is worthy of the name of a Hoscoe as its Editor : and what can
we say more ? The Tale of the Children ' a Island , from the French of Madame de Genlis , a sort of social Robinson Crusoe narrative , cannot fail of interesting our juveuile population , aud will probably make many a band of imaginary colonists . The following little Bird-song is very pretty :
** Ring-Dove I resting benignly calm , Tell my bosom thy secret balm ; Black-bird ! strainiug thy tuneful throat , Teach . uiy spirit thy thankful note ; Small wren ! building thy happy nest , Tell me where is a home of rest ! Eagle ! cleaving the cloudy sky , Teach my nature to soar as high ; Sky-lark ! winging thy way to Heaven , Be thy track to my footsteps given . "
Mrs . Opie ' s Hymn , entitled Resignation , is a penitential effusion of rather too deep and dark a character for this work ; happily the same opening of the volume presents a beautiful corrective in the ' * Spring Morning , by Miss Emily Taylor . ie There ' s Life abroad;—from each green tree
A busy murmur swells ; The bee is up at early dawn Stirring the cowslip bells . There ' s motion in the lightest leaf That trembles on the stream ; The . insect scarce an instant rests , Light dancing in the beam .
There ' s Life abroad—the silvery threads That float about in air , Where ' er their wanton flight they take Proclaim that Life is there . And bubbles on the quiet lake , And yonder music sweet , Aud stirrings in the rustling leaves , The self-same tale repeat .
All apeak of Life—and louder still The spirit speaks within , G ' erpowering , with ita strong , deep , voice The world ' s incessant din r There ' s Life without—and better far , Within there ' s Kfe add |> ower , And liberty of heart and rnhnl To Lo ? e , belftpe , adore . " Xne £ & $ > r JnA ^/ ully a <;( Htfni > lisbe ( i his jmoKKMi Qff « W 4 i ^ g wit ^/ nxuriilUy ami
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instruction a rich and abundant vein of gaiety aud novelty . Except to Norfolk boys and girls , the Market Woman's Adventure will need a glossary ; its dialect is a nut which only their teeth can crack ; but they will enjoy it so heartily , that its insertion is no stry of humour .
Ackerman s Juvenile Forget-Me-Not is distinguished among the Juveuiles by the beauty of its engravings . Some of its contributors seem not so well practised in writing for the young as those of the Juvenile Keepsake ; of course this applies not to such writers as Mrs . Hofland aud
the Howitts , and they are a large exceptidn . For " One of the Vanities of Human Wishes , " by Mary Howitt , and "The Wind in a Frolic , " by Wm . Howitt , we would certainly make room , if we could . They are both admirable .
Altogether , the work is an appropriate aud graceful pendant to Mr . Ackerman ' s Forget- Me-Not of larger growth ; his being the proprietor of which led him , we suppose , to thiuk there was no harm in making this " little bark attendant sail " under the same colours and name . That
name had , however , been previously appropriated by the next we have to notice , viz . The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not 9 edited by Mrs . S . C . Hall . This is now in its third year , and a lovely and thriving little thing it is , and a credit to the management of the amiable and talented lady who has the care of it . There are two of
her own productions , and both very interesting . In one of them , " The Irish Cabin , " the moral , that God will never desert the innocent , is exemplified by a very gross violation of probability in the supposed events . This is injudicious ; it fosters very unreasonable and deceptive expectations in the young ; aud is , indeed , false doctrine , for in the sense here meant , of making innocence evident at a critical juncture , so as to rescue
those who may be wrongfully accused from unmerited disgrace aud suffering , Providence is very far from always protecting the innocent . The child too often learns this , experimentally , by the mistakenly adjudged reward or punishment of the parent or the teacher . In this sense , the best men have been , as their Master was , ** forsaken . ' * There is a sense In which , that God never deserts the innocent is a certain and sacred
truth ; in that sense , and that only , should it be inculcated on the child ' s mind . Mrs . Hall ' s error is a very common one y it is the more desirable that she should correct it . The volume is so
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8 / 6 Monthly Rvpovt of General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 876, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/60/
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