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Othirft have punned because they could do nothing else ; he has panned so as to show that he can do anything else that he pleases . The propensity in him , is the unrestrained wantonness of that intellectual strength in the grasp of which language becomes pliapt , like a bai ; o | i ^ pn in the band of * giant , and is bent $ nd tw . ifle 4 and ^ VutecJ , imo % thpu $ ^ n 4 fantastic sUapes ., It is not merel y an p $$ r ^ ^ periment , showing t ^ e capabilities pf the , raajegj ^ , $ i < J [ #£ t ^ e azent , Xong ^ go there were touches of pathos in the little jeux ii'&pn f ^ t which folks laughed , that made all feel who could feel ; and tlie baffoclI ' pt feugene Aram was the revealing of a master spirit , who had previously been only
hidden in that by which he was supposed to be macfe known . We h , ave often wished he would do something worthy of himself . Tfce present work in part gratifies us , but only in part . Blended with all , the rich humour , verbal , graphic and incidental , which any one Wi expert or desire , there is in it character , passion , dramatic situation , romantic adventure , and sound philosophy . And if we be asked wbat we would have more , we reply , the yet more complete combination of these qualities , which the work itself authorizes us to anticipate ; a work in which the
writer , feeling that his seriousness , his pathos , and his power , are as distinctly recognised by the public as his puns , shall be less conscious , less melodramatic , less entangled by his own reputation , and more simply and entirely in his subject . We shall have it in time . Meanwhile , sending our readers to the book itself for an acquaintance with and enjoyment of it , we . extract a moral which we trust will not be lost on writers of fiction : The chiW is taught by bis copy-book that * Virtue is its own Steward /* ' and every volume In his juvenile library not only inculcates the same principle ,
but holds out a direct promiaeaf an equitable adjustment in this world , which is only to Vo lo ? fe . ed for ia another : an absurd system ^ bv which * instead of being , forearmed and forewarned by a practical prrapec £ of the , trials to ooroe , the good bov growg up a good man , and is astonished and disgusted to find hiniself , instead ofbein ^ even a siRer-gilt WhittXn&td n / ia contemned obj ec t , walking trje ^ W 6 rld barefoot and penny less , with the regard of virtue hanging upon his neek ^ m tbcf likeness of one of those tin or pewter medals of merit that used to 4 eeorate > him at his academy . This is an evil in our literate re that needs correction : as our preparatory schooling is chiefly derived from the writings and the teachings of the female sex , it would be well if the
Schoolmistress would go abroad with the Schoolmaster , and pick up some principle of conduct foryotith , superior to the servile , selfish one of the puppy , who is conscious of the breaker behind his heels , with a dog-whip in one hand and a piece of liver in the other/—Vol . iii . p . 217 , 218 .
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Tough Yarns . By the Old Sailor . We demur to the genuineness of the nautical language or sentiment of these tales ; out mayhap they may do just as well for landsmen . The stories are good arid short , and the illustrations , which are by George Cruikshank , are abundant , and in his best style . The whole getting up of the volume is excellent , and it is a little treasure for the winter evenings .
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The Biblical Keepsake . The engravings of this work are those which are publishing in numbers as Landscape Illustrations of the Bible ; no matter bqw often they are re-
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888 CriUcal Notice * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 888, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/70/
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