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JepMha ' S Daughter * a Dramatic Poem . By W . J . Chapman . Some passages in this drama may claim the praise of pure sentiment and agreeable versification ; but as a whole we cannot admire either its passion or its poetry . The following extract from the preface has , in our apprehension , more of the latter quality than any portion of the poem itself . We give it as a favourable introduction to the author : —
? Ever and anon , in the history of the Church , we meet with the names of remarkable women , who , like the chaste tree , spread sweetness around them , and were lovely in Iheir lives ; pearls of price and blossoms of hope in times of doubt and danger ; types , and signs , and revealings ; instinct with graces and filled with wisdom ; whose memories skirt , at intervals , like lesser stars , the outline of times foregone , and who foreshow the coining of that glorious epoch , when the reign of Justice shall be established upon the earth , and woman , as a consequence thereof , be restored to her original equality with man .
' 1 may have failed in attempting to express the character of the maid of ( Ulead ; her gentleness and her devotion ; her maidenly modesty and childlike simplicity , shadowing like a veil the beautiful features of pious heroism ; her willingness to die according to the very letter of her father ' s vow , " forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies , even of the children ofAmmon ; ** but at least a lovely vision has passed before mine
eves , and 1 have seen the lilies and the roses of Palestine , and a flower of exceeding beauty , Almah , the only one of her father—and am thankful . * The subject is not a good one for poetry . It must either be mystified , or exhibited as a revolting one , which it is . The attempt to idealize the character of a man who , even in the state of society in which Jephtha lived , colud make and keep such a \ ow , must ever be a forlorn endeavour .
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Tales of the British People . By Candida . The Reformed Parliament ; Songs for the Many ; and Miscellanies By Two of the People . Inasmuch as both of these publications are Radical , we sympathize in their spirit ; but it is impossible to award our praise to their execution . The humour of the first is too broad , and the verse of the second too
conventional , for our taste . A literature thoroughly imbued with antiaristocratic feelings and principles , must spring up in our country ; and it is the more desirable that it should bear the stamp of genuineness and real refinement . If the * Lines' by M . S . ( one of the people ) , which have much beauty in them , were really written ( t . e . the emotions they express really felt ) under' the branches of a poplar-tree , ' we confess ourselves at fault in our criticism .
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Miltoji ' s Prose Works . 8 vo . 25 s . We hold it a duty to announce this cheap republication . Milton ' s prose ought to be permanent neading for the people of England . Neither its subjects , nor its spirit , are out of date . The Church is now what it was then ; and the place of a licenser of the press is filled , as far as it can be ,
by the taxes on knowledge . So let the ancient eloquence combine with the modern logic to enforce the claims of mental freedom . Moreover , it is good that humanity should be studied in such a specimen as Milton . The popular circulation o ( his works is beneficial for the national character , which must advance by the contemplation of the fair proportions ° f his majestic mind .
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Holland ' s Inquiry into the Principles and Practic * of Medicine . Vol . I . Dk . Calvkrt Holland is already known as a physiologist , by his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/73/
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