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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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and whose conduct has given evidence to that effect . Those who will advance not a step beyond the Reform Bill , ought to be sent after those who were kicked out for not going so far . Their day is gone by . The recent change is sufficient evidence that the
people have not yet power enough . The experiment may fail ; but with household suffrage , triennial parliaments , and the ballot , would such an experiment have been attempted ? We trow not . We deserve that it should succeed , unless we take measures to prevent its repetition .
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Tales of Woman ' s Trials . By Mrs , S . C . Hall . There is much of sweetness and grace , much also of feeling and discrimination in Mrs . Hall ' s writings ; and they are pervaded by the earnestness of religious principle . The careful parent , who is rather jealous of fiction generally , will find in them none of the qualities which indispose him to trust tale , novel , or romance in his children ' s hands . They uphold the recognised morality of the day , in so far as it is sound , and also in so far as it is conventional .
We opened this volume with some curiosity to see how a woman ' s pea would portray woman ' s trials . The endurances to which the female heart is doomed in the present state of society , the sources of its strength , the means of deliverance , and the prospect of amelioration , these are themes which woman beat can handle ; but to do justice to them requires
no common degree of intellect , observation , or courage . On tliese subjects Mrs . Hall has thrown little new light ; but she has produced a succession of interesting and touching stories , the chief moral of which seems to be , submission here and heaven hereafter ; a good moral whenever the mischief is incurable ; but a misleading one , if the maxim of English law obtains in the government of the world , that wherever there is a wrong , there is a remedy . The heroines of many of her stories might have studied to advantage the writings of the strong-minded author of Cleone \ whose remarks , in a former part of this number , may perhaps give Mrs . Hall herself a mote just and vigorous conception of the condition and duties of her sex .
The sneer at the ' march of intellect' ( p . 9 ) and the ascription of gross vice to 4 the principles of equality , the rights of women , and Mr . Owen ' s morality , ' ( p . 273 , ) are not creditable to Mrs . Hall . Yet we can forgive her much for a sentiment so beautiful and true as the following : * Let no one make sport of youthful sorrow—it is the bitterest we are doomed to endure in our course through life ; the trials of after age are ,
doubtless , more real , but not so intense ; they are of the world , worldly—it is seldom they are unselfish—rarely untutored . Let any of us recall the devbtedness of our first reed grief , the anguish of our first real disappointment , and remember how literally it was deep and heartfelt—how perfectly mind and body were stricken during its continuance , and then , in justice to fast-coming memories , we can never make sport of early sorrowings/—p . 27 .
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Critical Notices.
CRITICAL NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/69/
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