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published , or in how many IbrtfiB . We kndw 6 F nothing of the kind to be Woaght into cotfroariaon with khbm . They exhibit the present state of the scenery referred to in the'Scriptures , but they exhibit it under such poetical aspects of light , shade , and accompaniment , as to Rotifer more ideality art tfr £ landscape than would be produced by any attempt to
ponray its antique idirtn . In some instances , as thkt of < BaVyton / the correffpofedence of the ticene , not with the state of things when Isaiah prophesied , but with that which he predicted , and which in alliU marshy desolateness , and earthy mounds-which once were buildings , has continued through so many ages , has a most impressive effect / This is harmoniously increased oy th ' 6 driVinj ^ ratik above , and \ ht " group of forlorn and shelterless wanderers below . " Egypt / Tadmor / * Bethlehem / Engeddj / niay all be mentioned as illustrations of the poetry of sacred landscape ;
and the" evef lasting arch bends over the brow of Ararat , as when it was first planted on the cloud to gladden the eyes and strengthen the heart of the solitary patriarch .
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The New Year * s Gift and Juvenile Souvenir . -.-.. . Mrs . Alaric Watts must exercise her editorial functions more sternly . Her responsibility is far deeper in the management of such a work as this , than were it only one of larger size and price for larger children . According to the military rule , she has put her efficient troops on the flanks and her weak ones in the centre ; the volume begins with William Howitt , and ends with Mary Howitt , and what they both write is good reading both for young and old * But some of the weak troops in the
centre are very weak . Let grown people write foolish things for grown people to read ; that is , nothing but full-grown folly ; but only the best and wisest should write for the young . To inculcate folly upon them is wickedness . All such compositions as those of Mrs . Abdy and Captain Macnaghteo should have been unhesitatingly refused admission . The volume begins and ends so well that we grieve to say this ; and must (also mention , as a redemption of the intermediate portion , that sweet , true and moral song of Mary Howitt's , the Carrier Dove . '
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Historia Ttchnica Anglicanee . By Thomas Rose . Like some other contrivers of schemes of artificial memory , Mr . Rose seems to us to have devised means which rather obstruct than facilitate the end . His Historia is better than his Ttchnica . As an abridge * ment of English history his book may be of use , though we cannot warmly commend it ; but if dates can only be recollected by making the mind a lumber room for his barbarous ' memorial verses , ' we should prefer a pocket chronology ; or one which might be pasted into the crown of a hat . like Tilt ' s almanack .
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The Comic Almanack for 1835 . Tilt . While all the serious and useful purposes of an almanack are well provided for in this publication , it has the additional recommendation of being full of the rich humour of George Cruikshank , whose graphic jokes are , moreover , accompanied by predictions add * sundry matters both pleasant and profitable / well worthy of this new ' Vox
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CrlHcai Notices . 68 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 889, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/71/
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