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gination-which can realize the eflfect of those influences in their various proportions ^ nd peculiarities ^ and give the writer that ide » tifiea | idtv with-the persons % e describes , and the characters he develops ^ whichv . cisnstitiited the phflosopM ^ a ! truth and T # orth « of the dramas of Shakspea re aadnVheriromanees of Scott ^ 1 Arid this dowe , we have the 'best kind of commet > lary > i » pop , Uie Bible , for we realise not only the physical and aninial ; abut ^ e . fi « et > t | il and moral aptoendages of its scenes ; our eyes not only follow r&be * Saviour ' s he to of
fingef ^ as poirits the lilies the field , the house built ) on ; a-roqk ^ sor the city set on -a hill ; but' we - enter i n to the hearts whose ; thoughts ; he knew , whose- hardnesshe mourned , or whose love ? he wom ; their prejudices , their ignorance , their weaknesses , their wanderings , their conflicts , their predilections and aversions , theirdiscoveries , their strength , all are bared to > our inspection , and brought home to our sympathies , and made subservient to * our more vivid and influential perception of the meaning , the : truth , jtfae ,- beauty , and the powe > , of the Gospel record . - ; < ; /;
This is a new field , and a noble one , of- literary , exertion ; aad we congratulate Miss Martineau on the graceful ' ' daring with which ; she has-ventured into it , and : of which the result is now before us in her Traditions of Palestine . She has bravely , but not presumptuously , " pressed the untrodden soil , ' * aspired to gather its first fruits , stooped to pluck its first flowers , and so happily blended them , that the grave and the gay ^ the ^ yaung and the old , may receive both pleasure and profit from the combination .- : ?
Miss Martineau ' s work is distinguished from Helon ' s Pilgrimage by its more direct bearing upon Scripture histtny , and by the connexion of its scenes , characters , and illustrations , with the introduction and promuJgation of the Gospel ; it is distinguished yet more decidedly and very advarktageously from Horace Smith ' s Zillah , and the Rev . George Croly ' s Salathiel , by its freedom from the husky and affected aritiquarianism of the one ; from the inflation , extravagance , and sheer romance of the other ; and by its , steady
aim at that material and intellectual illustration of Scripture whicq , happily was not contemplated by either the one or the other of those writers . At the same time it is needful to add , that its preteniions are m \ ich ; hftinbler than those of any of these works . Miss Martineau rather avails herself of , than affects to emulate , the learning and research displayed in itbe former ; and would probably deprecate the institution of any comparison ^ between her light and rapid sketches snd the prose epic at the construction of which the others seem to have laboured . .
As our object is to recommend , not supersede , this little volurne , we sjiall not impair its interest by any lengthened analysis , or by multiplied extracts . The first tale , The Hope of the Hebrew , is already known to our readers , having l > een printed originally in the Monthly Repository for February Jast . The titles of the other tales are Life in Death , Songs of Praise , the
Wilderness GJadcJened , Behold thy Son , the Hour of Rest , and , Alas ! that Mighty ^ y t , v [ ; ff ^ ie ; reader will probably anticipate from their mere enumeration , and ne will not be disappointed , that they are ingeniously and felicitously descriptive of t , he stories which . they severally introduce . Of these , the first four relate to events which are supposed to happen , during the ministry of Christ ; > the fifth to the day pf theyesurrectipn ; the next is dated in the
sixteenth year from that event ; and the last records the destruction of Jerusalem . . . , . . ¦ ¦ ' ' . •¦;• ¦¦' ' : m . ¦;• , '¦ ;? : ;••• ¦ :. ¦ T ^ st ^ le in which these tales are written harmonizes with their subjects tod design . It is slightly , and only slightly , quaint , antique , and stately . There is just a biblical tinge upon it , without any approach towards imitation
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524 Traditions of Pule&tine .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/20/
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