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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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My Bess , ye were a gleesome quean , As e ' er adorned a mind , Few peers had ye , on hill or green , Sae canny , sweet , and kind ; But flowers live to bloom and die .
The shrub , and forest tree , And a' that owns an earthly tie Maun fade—sae you and me , Lang syne . Mine eyes grow dim , and runneth slow The throbbing stream at last , And life seems but as visions now .
Or faint dreams o' the past ; But there is still that promised land Where age is not , nor pain , Oh , yes ! we'll join yon happy land , And talk o' days by-gane , Lang syne D . aft Wattje .
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230 Critical Notices . — Tales and Popular Fictions .
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Tales and Popular Fictions ; their resemblance , and transmission from Country to Country . By Thomas Keightley , London . Whittaker . This is a volume full of the most pleasant philosophy and criticism . The author views man ' as an inventive and independent , rather than a merely imitative being / and finds very agreeable media of proof and
illustration in various popular legends , which he shows must have been of independent origin , notwithstanding their many marvellous coincidences . He has succeeded in demolishing many romantic genealogies . His observations are valuable from their bearing on the evidence of many supposed migrations of portions of the human race ; and also for the light they ahed on the philosophy of the mind . Nor does his theory render him blind to the curious instances of transmission which
presented themselves to him in the course of his researches into the history of fiction . He has traced the Arabian Nights ( as they are called ) to Persia ; and ascertained at what an early period some of these tales made their way into Europe . We feel him to be rather hard-hearted , especially after his sarcasm on * the narrow-minded and
intolerant disciples of Utility , ' in robbing history even of the very shadow of Tell ' s apple and Whittington ' s cat ; and yet it is impossible to quarrel with a writer who tells his stories with all the glee of a child , and comments on them with all the acumen of a critic . We beg to assure him that we esteem him a Utilitarian of the very first order , and should so rank him , were it only for his translation from the Pentamerone .
Critical Notices.
CRITICAL NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/74/
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