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j > fc 6 fr ^* dfitiMe ^ j ^« ftd costume , andeaUyened With liptwiwtriis of conversation , are the common publications of tl& 9 « hBp& But' Jermnghata is a chequered history of human paswto ^ v The author has aimed at hi eh things in the conduct df him £$# fc H * has displayed in different individuals theworkiagi of efe ¥ Vi F £ veiig& / remorse , friendship —intense eaotvght iit * t < tt *
called k p ^^ ion , —and love . He has also drawn tba chariot ** of a ybtm £ and ardent philosopher of the Shelley scbftoiy itx } has perfer&yed three women , each interesting enough to be herself the heroine of a story . The whole is written in the form of an "autobiography of Claude Jerningham , the ' Inconsistent Man / It possesses great interest * Emotions are
described with delicacy and truth , and some of their stronger workings are traced with much power . Considered fcs a whole , the work wants unity of designv Important purposes and actions revolve at the same time , without any dependence on each other ' s * systems / It is very difficult to say with what individuals the main action rests . There are three distinct groups , round each of which a di ** tinct set of interests cluster , and each of which might be
removed from the scene without changing the characters and fate of the others ; their actions and outwapd circumstances would be in some degree altered , but nothing more . One of these groups is composed of the two brothers , Claude and Frederick Jerningham , their uncle , Margaret de Laurier , and
Ellen Hervey ; the second , of Delaval , the two Leicesters , and Geraldine ; the third , of Everard Sinclair , hi $ _ father and brother , Mr Travers , and Lucy . In this enumeration we have entirely omitted the subordinate personages , all of whom , however , are well drawn . The separate groups are not unskilfully brought together ; on the contrary , tlie incidents which unite them are naturally introduqed ; but this iarrot sufficient .
In a finished work of art , it matters not how many varieties of character and expression are exhibited , since all will be subor dinate to the principal action ; and all will influence it , or bo influenced by it , except perhaps those things which are not sufficiently prominent to be any thing more than tU ^ nietest accessories . All other important causes and effects mutt bl
kept out of sieht , as foreign to the purpose , and fitted only to distract the mind . Eeteh individual character , considered as a whole ^ Itodlt ^ GtTufrtly Wants unity . Each fails at the important trt » mti ^ Tlfti
good and the great do not prove good enough Ot'fereat ^ rieWm *; thfe evil and the depraved do not sustain tTieiVicHWiijtjr ^ 8 trettgtji in evih It seems as though the ? 6 ptth « t'tfjktfaffiflfcfe tjfe ' natoe of ttiefr supposed historian should W 4 ttftili 4 & ftfWtti ftti v—met * and wotixea . The * Ia < K > ii * i » tertt Mto * i * W ttSAs
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 761, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/45/
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