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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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the whole composition is quite unworthy of the pen that wrotS it . But many among the various notes and letters of Coleridge will be found to contain passages of profound thinking and subtle beauty . Those of Charles Lamb are original and
exquisite . We cannot resist presenting the reader with the following , as highly characteristic of the equal temerity and impunity of true wit . However angry , shocked , or confounded you may fancy you ought ' by rights to be , you are compelled to laugh ; after which it would be mere affectation or hypocrisy to pretend to be offended .
" It will be interesting to compare Lamb's estimate of the belief of Coleridge—half serious , half sportive—with a defence ( by the latter ) of Lamb from the charge of scepticism . After a visit to Coleridge , during which the conversation had taken a religious turn , Leigh Hunt , after
having walked a little distance , expressed his surprise that such a man as Coleridge should , when speaking of Christ , always call him our Saviour . Lamb , who had been exhilarated by one glass of that gooseberry or rasin cordial which he has so often anathematised , stammered out , * ' Ne—ne—never mind what Coleridge says J he is full of fun . "
We regret that space does not permit us to give more extracts . On the whole we are glad these volumes have been published , and recommend them as containing very fine " pickings . "
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The Life and Times of Rienzi . Not less interesting thati Mr . Bulwer ' s eloquent romance , and scarcely less romantic , is this historical record of " The Conspiracy of Gabrini " ( the family name of the last of the Tribunes ) . It is ascribed to " Father Cerceau , a distinguished Jesuit of the early part of the eighteenth cerltury , " and was
revised and published by Father Brumoy . That Gibbon relied on it as authority is a good testimony to its authenticity . The simplicity and spirit of the narrative , and the extraordinary character of trie events ., combine with the qualities of the singular man who is the subject of this biography , to furnish out an enjoyment alike adapted to the novel reader , the student of history , and the philosopher .
The Sentiment of Flowers . London , Tilt . Partly translated from " he language des Floors * " of * Madame de la Tour , partly original , and the rest of the volume made up of appropriate extracts from our own poets , this pretty little book with its coloured illustrations , looks rerj
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Critical Notices.
CRITICAL NOTICES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/60/
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