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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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as may from time to time fefe found Necessary . ' To be sure : from the time of paying dividends ; till there has been time to spend the usual portion that the cognoscenti know to be usiial in the city ; or at the pleasure of the * certain commissioners ( . ' As to the proprietors and drivers being persons of character and respectability / we suppose that means individuals who have the benefit of a good education and two hundred per annum .
Now that some of the drivers of omnibuses and cabs are most barefaced abusers , besides being peremptory insisters . upon an extra sum as the reward oi impudence , is a vexatious fact . But only think of the noble and ancient line of Jarvis !—think of the hackney-coachmen of present as well as past days , and how many 4
more choicespecimens can be adduced ! For one insult or ex * - tortioa perpetrated by the former , we can all recollect enjoying more than we wish to count from the old treble-coated , slangwittedj hay-hatbanded , rascal-faced curmudgeons who are quite overlooked in this very patriotic petition of Mr . Deputy Brook .
As to diminishing the number , there are not more than the public need . They are generally crammed during the mornings and evenings ; and at other times they are commonly as full as convenient to any man not altogether reduced to a thread ^ paper . At all events , if they did not fill enough to pay the proprietors ,
there would not be so many . That part of the evil would correct itself ; if not , we should see them tumbling one over the other into the * Gazette . ' But where , we ask > are these lots of bankrupts ? And the gallant , well-regulated , well-horsed , and welL-^ ppointed Mr . Shilibeer , pulling up his proud coursers with a dignified elbow , echoes—Where ? "g- ' -im . ¦¦ ' ¦ '¦ "¦ ¦ -- ' r ¦ " ¦ . ' ¦ ii i »¦ ! i i ¦ i — m ¦ ' ii i' ¦ ¦ 'iv ¦ ' ¦ " -I ¦ ¦ ' ' •¦ ' - ' i ¦; i > . . ¦ .. <¦»—
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Pantika ; or Traditions of the most Ancient Times . By William Howitt . 2 vols .
So far as we are acquainted with the annals of Quaker authorship , they afford no precedent for the variety and freedom of the incursions made by * the Howitts' into the fields of literature . History and fiction , education and controversy , poetry and prose , drama and romance ; they have gone forth into all , as knight and Amazon of old , alike adventurous in their chivalry . And that similitude of courage and excursiveness reminds us only more strongly of the contrast , between the good , and gentle , and benignant spirit of the one , with all qualities now called Amazonian ; and of the nobler enterprise of , the other to any that knighthood ever boasted in the clays of caatles and battle-axes * The volumes l ? eft > re u « ape a < fresh specimen of daring ; we cannot say of manly daring , for the dramas of the ' Seven Temptations / by Mary Howitt , were at least as bold as these romances of Jewish history and tradition ,
Critical Notices.
CRITICAL NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/66/
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