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Art . XIV . — The United Family ; or Characters portrayed from real JLi / e . For the use of Children . By Matilda Williams . London , Joy .
1829 . The purpose of this little work is to teach religion in the form of fiction . This purpose would probably be better answered if the topics chosen were more simple , and the language employed more familiar . Some discoveries are also made
which children would scarcely make for themselves , but which it would be quite time enough for them to admit when capable of examining the Bible for themselves . We give an instance —• " Whilst Cain , therefore , must have depended on the goodness of the work , Abel , as he made his sacrifice in faith acceptable to God , renounced , I make no doubt , the merit of works , and looked to God for acceptance through Christ alone . " P . 53 .
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Art . XV . — Cottage Poetry . By the Author of " Did Friends in a New Dress . " Pp . 60 . London , Smith , Elder and Co ., Cornliill . Vbbse has a peculiar charm for the uneducated ; and those who converse little with books find it easier to retain
ideas which are conveyed in metre than under any other form . It is , therefore , of importance that literary pleasures which may be prepared for them of this kind should be carefully managed , so that -good sense may be mingled with excitements of the imagination . In this
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respect the little work before us is highly creditable to the judgment of the writer , and may form a very useful addition to the cottage library .
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62 Critic a I Notices . — Micellan c uus .
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Art . XVI . — A Manual of Ancient History , particularly with regard to the Constitutions , the Commerce , and the Colonies of the States of Antiquity . By A . H . L . Heerea , Professor of History in the University of Goettin ^ en , &c . &e . From the German . 8 vo . Oxford . \ 5 s .
The best books of this class are German , and Professor Heeren's is the best German book of this class . It amply justifies the declaration of the Translator , that in it tc the geography , chronology , biography , and bibliography of the kingdoms and countries of the ancient world
are brought at once before the eye of the reader , and so lucid is the arrangement that the darkest and most tangled portious of history are seen in a clear and perspicuous light . " It is in the form of a Syllabus of Lectures , with numerous
references to authors of all ages and countries . Although now first presented to the English reader , its value may be estimated T > y the fact of its having passed through six large German editions , two French , and been translated into almost every other European language .
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Art . XVII . —The Companion to the Almanac ; or , Year-Book of General Information ; for 1830 . Published under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . 2 s . 6 d .
It is expected that 80 , 000 copies of the British Almanac will be sold this year . Such a sale , taken in connexion with the great improvement in the Almanacs published by the Stationers' Compauy , would suffice , without referring to their other works , to shew that the Society
with which it originated is a mighty machine for good . The * ' Companion" contains , like those of the last two years , a huge mass of information on chronology , statistics , &c , under the same general arrangement , except that for the " Useful Directions and Remarks' * is
substituted a List of " Charitable Institutions in and near London , classed according to their Objects . " The activity , labour , and extensive resources , implied in this compilation are astonishing . The least the public can do , and it is all that is required , is to receive the knowledge so diligently collected , and so cheaply preferred , for it » use .
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Art . XHL— The Valley of the Nymphs , a Dream of the Golden World . By J . Johns , author of Dews of Castalie . London , Hurst . 2 s . 6 d . We recommend to every reader of cultivated taste this beautiful and graceful little Poem . Had modern Bards
known how to avail themselves of the fine forms of the Grecian Mythology , that Mythology would not have become the bore and the bugbear which it has been made . Keats saw its capabilities for really poetic purposes ; and that perception gave their peculiar charm to his brief and broken effusions . With much
of a kiudred spirit , as a poet , Mr . Johns unites the higher attributes of a Christian Philosopher , and he has thus given depth and purity and power to his subject , without impairing the fragile loveliness of its texture . The plan of his poem is most felicitously conceived , and slight indeed are the exceptions that could be taken to its execution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/62/
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