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Hi * description of the repote of " good goei * ty" if * r&r j accurate : " For all extraordinary admiration the word capital ' suffices ; for all ordinary praise , the word * nice ; ' for all e ©* idemnation in morals , manners , or religion , the word odd /' Such a man as in any other conn try would be reckoned "
amusing / ' is here called " an overpowering person / ' To espresa any strong feeling is to make < c a scene ; " to talk cleverly ot brilliantly is to be out of keeping with the rest of the company ,
and is " offensive . " " Society , " says Mr . Willis , " on tbie footing is agreeable to all /'—Vol . iii ., p . 214 , —for all we should read none .
There is one passage , Vol . 3 , p . 128 , which , perhaps from a carelessness of wording , might prove very misleading to strangers , as it would seem to imply that all the company in the Monarch steam-boat , going from London to EHtnburgrh , ladies as well as gentlemen , joined in a "' hip-hrp-hnrr&h , " and drank off bumpers of whiskey to the health of the Captain . This , however , is quite an exception to the usual tone of the
book . Notwithstanding * what has been said to the contrary , it is in general particularly inoffensive ; the author is almost always inclined to see the bright side of thing's , and disposed to appreciate and enjoy the agreeable wherever it can be found , and m these respects might serve as a pattern and a lesson to the Mrs . Trollope « of the day .
M . The Masterpieces of English Prone Literature . Vol . I , the Select Prose Works of Milton . With a preliminary Discourse and Notes , by J . A . St . John .
It will be a foul disgrace upon the public if this undertaking * be not eminentl y successful . Of all the "Libraries" which
have appeared , there has been no collection or selection of half the importance and worth which this will possess , if , as we see no reason to doubt , the continuation shall correspond , in principle and execution , with the volume now before us . A set should be ordered for every man , woman , and child , that the great master spirits of the English people may exercise their mental power over the entire population . The Editor
has taken much pains with the orthography , arrangement , and illustration ( by short notes ) of the works selected for this volume , and his Preliminary Discourse is one of the best notices of Milton which has appeared . A Comic Alphaktt ^ by G . Craikshank .
The world may say of Cruikshank s art what Lamb said of Coleridge ' s religion , " he is full of his fiin . " It runs all through the Alphabet . Here are twenty-four rare specimens , besides the clever pictorial advertisement on the cover . The
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/63/
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