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Christian Phrenology . Three Lectures . By Henry Clarke . True religion and sound philosophy must needs be in harmony , and the exhibition of that harmony must be amongst the most useful agencies
of Phrenology and a preacher of Christianity , has lectured in a clear , logical , and popular manner upon their essential congruity . His lectures deserve attention in their published form , and his practice in delivering them we take to be a very commendable one , tending to revive and augment the usefulness of pulpit instruction .
of the religious teacher . Mr . Clarke being at once an advocate of that view of the philosophy of the human mind which passes under the name
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Frithiof ' s Saga , or The Legend of Frithiof . By Esaias Tegner . Translated from the Swedish .
Teoner is the great modern poet of Sweden , and * Frithiof ' s Snga * is his great work . It is a sort of ballad epic in twenty-four short cantos , each in a different measure . The time is about the eighth century , and
the superstitions of the Scandinavian mythology are introduced , although but sparingly . As a whole , the ^ Legend has considerable power ; but there are no passages wliich we can detach as specimens of poetical
beauty of any very high order . Although we profess not to speak of the merits of the translators ( there are several of them ) in that capacity , it may be allowed us to say that the ease , freedom , and variety of their
versification produces all the effect of an original poem . As such , the Legend will attract interest , besides that which belongs to it as a specimen of Swedish poetry which lias rapidly gained European popularity .
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Barber ' s Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight . We miss , in many of the engravings in this volume , that poetical distribution of light and shade which gives us the spirit of a scene as well as its material form , and for the introduction of which the island landscapes are so admirably adapted . But they are faithful representations of beautiful objects , well executed , and accompanied with historical and descriptive matter so complete as to render this a valuable and excellent guide-book to the famed * Garden of England .
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under the mistaken notion of promoting religion thereby . The illustration came in our way ; it would be difficult , perhaps , to find any similar publication so free as this . Those for whom it is intended may quite believe the writer ' s declaration , — ' Tis to make their school-hours pleasant , And their tasks less hard to learn , That short lessons , like the present , She to cheerful verse would turn . '
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436 Critical Notices .
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The Obituary of J . L . ia nent to the * Unitarian Chronicle . ' We uhall take some opportunity of expressing our own feeling of the worth of tliut excellent man . Uai W . L . T . left us off ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 436, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/72/
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