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CRITICAL, NOTICES.
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; fEbe < $ ablte * tta * Moi « m is the fin * ^ itttHefly pwt ( 4 ire monthl y numbers ) of the be ^ t att empt we have seen to bring something of all this beauty hotne to u $ . It contains twenty-one engravings * the subjects and execution , with scarcely aa oxoeptwn * boiagaoke creditable to the taste and skill of the artists . The only fault we have to find is with the frequent introduction of
figures . Those capering horses in a curricle at Glencroe ; that plaided party which almost seems about to dance a quadrille in the Trosachs ; the nervous lady who is limping and lounging with a dandy hand to help her helplessness , thinking more of her own falls than of those of the Clyde , and presenting the back of her bonnet to Stoneybyres : these are all impertinences , which ought to be obliterated , and we trust will not be continued . Not but
what there is a discretion to be used in these matters . In the West Bow , Edinburgh , the Covenanters come in well . They are not condemned Covenanters . ' Towns must be peopled . Street scenery abhors solitude . Nor could there have been better grouping , or more appropriate , for the stern old stone houses of that memorable fragment of Auld Reekie . But against all the rest we
protest ; except perhaps the washerwomen at Cartlane Crags . So much beauty may easily bear the imputation of one blot . The dark transparency of the waters of Loch Katrine ; the spiritualized vision of Ben Lomond in the view from Inveruglas ; the delicate mists floating around the heights of Ben Arthur . and over the vale of Glencroe ; the spectral whiteness of the Brig o
Balgownie ; the foaming of Corra Lynn , and that bare tree in the torrent which seems a preternatural form ; the soft light of Loch Long ; and the dreamy sunset on Loch F y ne ; these are the genuine poetry of painting , and not to be praised by words , but by the eloquent eye that appreciates and drinks in their loveliness .
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Views of the World from H alley * s CotneL A Discourse , &c . By James Martineau . The rather odd title given above is the introduction not , as some might expect , of a satire , but of a sermon ; and of a sermon characterized by qualities almost as rare as the appearances of comets in the heavens , but of a much more durable description . It islrest reviewed , and to
every reader who appreciated sound thought , chaste fancy , elevated piety , and a rare felicity of expression , it is best praised , by extract . After , some Introductory remarks on the association of religion with astronomy * the author takes the following view of the condition of society at eaoji of the ascertaiued returns of the heavenly visitant whose second predicted appearance our hemisphere has just enjoyed . * fXk of its year * ago , Europe was immersed in an intellectual darkpets fliposf ; total , Ajptf ^ risosa . notstpialt eefebrated its oaiufcal , and played Uujnosi * buSBm' tSSa hdSum Heaven" * J * t \\ s& *^ wa # ( th *< Hily
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Critical, Notices.
CRITICAL , NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/60/
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