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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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valuable , ' m its arrangement , and embellishments , so well got up , and so perfectly adapted to its object , that it might bear much more blame than this in perfect consistency with a strong re - commendation of it . The first article is from the pen of the late Mrs . Barbauld ; a very pleasant admonitory sketch for the especial benefit of young ladies . 1
The New Year 8 Gift and Juvenile Souvenir , edited by Mrs . Alaric Watts , is quite a feminine reflection of Mr . Watts ' s Literary Souvenir , and characterized by the same pervading good taste , respectability , and elegance . The Editor
persists in her " studied rejection of the Giants and Dragons of Faery Land /' guarding her position by the authority of Miss Edge worth , and the argument , " that children should be taught nothing that it will ever be necessary for them to unlearn . " But this remark is not to
the purpose . Nobody contends that children should be taught Faery Tales as true histories . The juvenile public , at ten years of age , may discriminate between fact and fancy . JEsop ' s Fables have , for many a generation , been in the hands of vet more youthful readers ,
without their having afterwards to unlearn any faith iti the loquacity of birds and beasts . And if the imagination be a powerful agent in the formation of character and the production of happiness , it should hare its proper food as well as its proper restraint and correction . To those parents , however , who
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Manchester College and London University . To the Editor . Sir , London , Nov . 1829 . A Correspondent has started , in your last number , ( p . 806 , ) a question *• respecting the propriety of connecting the College at York with the London University . " Having myself received the usual course of education which the
College at York affords , and being in a considerable degree acquainted with the plans and proceedings of the London University , my proximity to its aite affording opportunities in this respect of which I occasionally avail . myself , I ca » -
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think with this very intelligent lady , her graceful little volume must be peculiarly acceptable ; While to tliose who hold an opposite opinion , its sins of omission will appear very venial in the contemplation of its many merits .
We have to notice one Annual out of its place , unless we may be allowed to plead that the publication itself is out of its place among the Annuals ; and there is something too solemn and sacred in its title to blend harmoniously with what must seem comparatively " bo light and vain . " It aims at " a decidedly religious character , " and is called Emmanuel , and edited by the Rev . W . Shepherd . This title is avowedly adopted because it " betokens godliness . " The decorations are few and unpretendiug ; and many of the compositions unexceptionable ; and this is the chief merit that we can ascribe to them . From a few
even this praise must be withheld ; for instance , the Editor ' s tirade against those who think marriage a civil contract , whom he reprobates as the abettors of all sorts of enormities . A note to some lines on the Conflagration of York Minster records a singular coincidence—viz .
that iC in the first afternoon lesson for the Sunday after the Conflagration took place the following passage occurs : — * Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised thee is burned with fire ; and all our pleasant things are laid waste . ' Isaiah lxiv . 11 . "
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not help entertaining an opinion on this subject , which , with your leave , I will venture to express . Permit me then to say , Sir , that I think the question , in , the pages of the Monthly Repository at least , premature—that it would have been better to leave the discussion of it a little
longer to private circles . And for this obvious reason , —the London University is yet an infant Institution , and , however promising , cannot be watched without anxiety mingled with hope . Its best friends must own that its health and strength are not yet sufficiently proved ; ho much so , that , whatever it may be * come , an adequate , a safe opinion evidently cannot yet be formed respecting
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Miscellaneous Correspondence , 877
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 877, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/61/
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