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m certainly true , " This mall book will give large often ** to knives , and to their friends , the fools and hypocrites . " Shakspeare * $ Dramatic Works . Tegg . We are always glad to see a new edition of Shakspeare in any form . The present publication is a beautiful , compact .
single volume , of very clear type , and not merely called a pocket edition , but one that is really portable in the pocket . It has a glossary for the obsolete words , with the additional advantage of being qnite free from all prefaces , comments , and marginal notes . To the real appreciators of Shakspeare a good glossary is sufficient , they do not like to Bee him * encumbered with
assistance . Pastorul Epistle from his Holiness the Pope to some Membirs of the University of Oxford . 2 nd . Edit . Fellowes , 1836 . This is a capital idea , rather drily executed . The only striking wit is in the title , which has sold one edition , and will probably sell a second and part of a third . The ' sarcasm of the author
is grave , calm , and recondite ; but while this renders his production finer as a work of art , it will prevent its having that extensive popularity which a broader satire would have induced . As we sympathize with the author ' s purpose we wish this had been the case . But the pamphlet possesses an important feature in the shape of numerous quotations from the Oxford Tracts , which manifest a more preposterous spirit of
Church-o £ » £ nglandisin , as opposed to the Christian religion , than the public at all imagine . They are worthy even of Prf Croly . We do not know whether this Divine has yet Deceived the expected invitation from his Holiness the Pope ; ' but we aye quite sure that he would be received with open arms * especially if his divine tail was supported by the authors of the above tracts , two abreast , chanting the thirty-nine articles , with sucking pigs under their arms , as counter tenors of
the chorus . One of the tracts gives the following account of our precious Bishops : — " Again , it may be asked , \ yho are at this time the successors and spiritual descendants of the Apostles ? I shall surprise gome people
by the fttytwer I shall give , though it is very clear , and there is no doijbt about U—the Bishops . They stand in the place of the Apostles . He thit despises them despises the Apostles . If we knew them well we should love them for the many excellent graces they posse * i , —for their p iety , lovTng-kindness , and other virtues . But we dor not know { hero ; yet still , for all this , we may honour them as the ministers of Christ , without going- so far as to consider their private
worth ; and we m * y keep to their ' fellowship / as we should to that of the Apostles . I say we may all thus honour them , even without ( uwwfog them in private , because of their high office $ for they her *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/62/
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