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work so useful , and indeed essential , to the politician , the merchant , and the philosopher , and 50 convenient for all who have any care about the world we live in , will bear some proportion to the expenditure of time and toil by the compiler .
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The British Almanac , and Companion . The British Household Almanac , The British Working-Man ' s Almanac . The above are published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledg-e , to which society we are indebted for the great
almanacreformation whicli has been so happily accomplished . They are all full of information of a practical description , and of constant application ; and the 'Companion' sustains the character which it has so well earned in former years . The exertions of the Society in this department amply entitle it to the gratitude of the country .
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Dodsleys Economy of Human Life . London : Van Voorst . 1834 . An embellished and elegant edition of a work which has long been too popular to require description or criticism .
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Selections from the American Poets . London : Simpkin and Marshall . We must so far confess our ignorance of American poetry as to allow that we are not certain that it is not more the fault of the selector than of the poets , that there is , in this volume , so decided a preponderance of mere description and common-place sentirnent . Of the fact of that preponderance , we are quite certain ; and equally so of the result , that the volume will be chiefly acceptable to that class of persons with which
a sort of sober sentimentalism passes for poetry , and goodness , and all that is valuable . There are several pieces of Bryant , who is already pretty well known in this country ; as is Paulding , from whom there is only a single extract . The selections from Brainard and Pierpont have more of originality than perhaps any others ; and the song of 'The
Pilgrim Fathers , ' by the latter , in a beautiful lyric . As this appeared in some of our periodicals soon after the occasion for which it was written , ( the Centenary of the Landing of the Exiles , ) we prefer giving , as a favourable sample of the lighter compositions in this volume , the following verses by N . P . Willis :
SATURDAY AFTERNOON . I love to look on a scene like this , Of wild and careless play , And persuade myself that I am not old , And my locks are not yet grey ; For it stirs the blood in an old man ' s heart , And it makes his pulses Jtty , To catch the thrill of a happy voice , And the light of a pleasant eye .
I have walked the world for fourscore years , And they say that I am old , And my heart is ripe for the reaper , Death , And my years are well nigh told .
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Qritieal Notices . 71
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/71/
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