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    by William Howitt . We trust that bath will have an ample measure of that purest kind of success which their authors evidently most desire ; In diverging , from the usual routine of Quaker exertion , they never lose sight or ( nay , they regard all the more steadily ) the good old Quaker principle of doing service to mankind . With the single exception of restraint from any wandering that might

    appear to him to be morally injurious , the Author of these volumes Has fairly thrown the reins on the neck of his imagination , and spurred it to its speed . He has overleaped the barriers of the world before the flood , and seen the patriarchs , and the angels , and the fiends , and the giants , and the old Lamia , and the dark Demiurgus , and Lilith the rival of Eve ,

    and the huge monsters of demi-chaotic planets . In the person of the ancient Pantika of Tarshish , he has preserved their strange legends . And some there are of later date , rabbinical versions , like the former , hut of the times of the judges of Israel , and down to the reign of Solomon . They seem as remote to our minds as the former ; for these : also are fresh ground for romance , and under the cultivation of our author , it is

    luxuriant even to rankness . The chief defect of the author ' s delineations is , that they sometimes want distinctness and condensation . We particularly refer to his descriptions of person and character . In the scenery of nature he is q \ ii \ e at home . His incident occasionally strikes us as too theatrical . The rosin and trapdoors of the Adelphi have abated the public reli&li for thunderbolts and earthquakes . i

    The charm of these stories is in the freshness of their subject ; from which the ' World before the Flood' and the Loves of the Angels detract but little ; in their poetical construction and adornment ; in their derivation from Hebrew legend , and their illustrative or other connexion with genuine sacred history ; in the wildness , diversity , and interest of the narrative ; and in the moral sentiment by which they are pervaded .

    The following is a list of the titles of these tales : * The Pilgrimage of Pantika , ' * Niehar , the Exile of Heaven , ' * Ithran the Demoniac , ' * Beeltuthma , the Desolate and the Faithful , ' « The Avenger of Blood , ' ' The Soothsayer of No , ' * The Valley of Angels . ' We had marked several extracts , amongst which was a curious scene of grotesque horror , in the punishment of Noph , the mercenary * Soothsayer of No ; ' but find with regret that we have not room for their insertion .

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    Christianity and Churchr-of-Irelandism . A . Sermon . , By George Harris . Glasgow . This discourse was first delivered on the 24 th January last , and the edition before us is the seventh . The author has touched a string that vibrates strongly in the popular heart . The tithe-slaughter at RattiS cormac has passed off , as yet , far too quietly . The public attention has been exclusively fixed , in England at least , on the elections and their results ; but there will come a time for it . Meanwhile , we thank SIM

    Harris tor giving Justice this refresher . It was a prbper subject fot the indignant animadversion of the Christian and the moralist * as well as ther pdlxtlciah ; and his thoughts and feelings on the occasion are itjftttftp liriately and forcibly expressed . We subjoin a portion of the preface , deslribW the effect ' produced : - V * <* W .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/67/