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* NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. A communication for O. C. P. mX our office.
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India . A Poem . By a young Civilian of Bengal . We like this book for haying a purpose , a strong purpose ; which is more than most books and poems have ; but we cannot think the author judicious in attempting an exposure of the misgovern men t of Hindostan through the medium of three cantos of heroic verse , however polished and nervous much of that verse may be . This sort of business is now always transacted in prose .
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Remarks on Transportation . A Second Letter to Earl Grey . By R Whately , D . D . Archbishop of Dublin . Some pamphlets published in Van Diemen ' s Land have occasioned this supplement to the Archbishop ' s work on Secondary Punishments . It acutely and conclusively exposes the inconsistency of the writers , who are shown to ha \ re employed the most opposite statements , so that those statements did hut tend to keep up the supply of convicts to the colony . The doubts expressed in our note on the Van Diemen ' s Land almanac ,
in last September s Repository , are completely laid to rest by this pub lication , which may be considered as settling the question of transpor tation as a punishment .
* Notice To Correspondents. A Communication For O. C. P. Mx Our Office.
* NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS . A communication for O . C . P . mX our office .
National Lyrics and Songs for Music . By Felicia Hermans . Mrs . Hemansalways handles her harp like a lady ; and , we may add , like an English lady . In her compositions we are always sure of propriety , refinement , grace , sweetness , and kind and pious feeling . We find also an admixture of verbiage , conventionalism , and narrow nationality . She worships chivalry and glory with the adoration of a sentimental school-girl . It would seem passing strange that one so
characteristically gentle should sing so much of war and warriors , did we not know what woman ' s training is , how it sacrifices the strength of intellect to the pride of dependence . Young heroes , with sisters and loves at home , who fall in foreign fields , are the favourites of her muse . Remembering what eort of wars we have waged , and how our armies have been officered , we rather doubt the pre-eminent claims of this class of persons to poetical apotheosis . ' The old high wars of England *
were mostly expeditions for plunder and slaughter on a large scale , and her recent ' high wars * have had little to recommend them to those whose delights are in the charities of home , the fondnesses of affection , the loveliness of nature , and the sympathies of religion . We regret that Mrs . Hemans should not perceive the incongruity ; but we rejoice that in her it is an incongruity , an error of the intellect , and not of the heart , whose inspiration has dictated so many compositions full of truth ,
beauty , and pathos . The volume before us * contains , besides a few poems on subjects of national tradition , all those of the author ' s pieces which have , at different periods , been composed either in the form of the ballad , the song , or the scena , with a view to musical adaptation . ' After all deductions , such a collection must be generally welcome . In mentioning the exquisite beauty of the lines entitled * the Haunted House / we only indicate a favourite amongst many which might substantiate a claim to similar praise .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/72/
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