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    Mb. Browning's New Volume.

    Browning shows more synipathy than has hitherto t been common . The next person

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    century . Christopher Smartthe inconstant and

    erratic poetaster , is then , brought forward . His best-known work is the * Song to David , '

    which he wrote when confined as a lunatic . Readers of Boswell ' s Johnson will remember several references to this extraordinary

    character . One of the most touching is Johnson ' s conversation with Dr . Burney : — 'Burney :

    " How does poor Smart do , sir ? is he likely to recover ? " Johnson : "It seems as if his

    mind had ceased - to struggle with the disease , for he grows fat upon it . " Burney :

    " Perhaps , sir , that may be from want of exercise . " Johnson : "No , sir , he has partly

    as much exercise as he used to have , for he digs in the garden . Indeedbefore his

    con-Unement , he used for exercis , e to walk to the ¦ alehouse - ^—¦ w -m ^ — — , ^ m but — he — " ^— was w w ^— ^— b ~^^ carried ^^ v ^» ^ ^ ^ ^» ^^^ ^» ^ back W ~^^ T ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ " ^ again ^^ r ^^^^ H ^^ M ^^^^^ ^^^ P ^^ . . . ^^ ¦ I ^^^^^ did ^^^^^ ^^ ^^

    not think he ought to be shut up . His infirmities were not noxious to society . He

    insisted on people praying with him , and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else .

    Another charge was , that he did not love clean linen , and I have no passion for it . "' Mr .

    Browning thinks highly of the ' Song to David , ' and the lesson he teaches is contentment .

    George Bubb Doddington was a man of a different stamp : an intriguing politician of the

    eighteenth century . The monologue addressed to him by Mr . Browning is a powerful satire

    on the darker aspects of political life . Francis Furini ¦ ¦ the ¦ ¦¦— celebrated Florentine wb painter " ^^^ p ^ i ^ ¦ is

    the insp ™— , ^ m irer ^™ of ^^ the ^^^ - ^^ w ~^ v ^^ m fifth ^^^ r ^^ ^^^^ - ^^ p ^^ poem ^«™™ ^^ ^ i ^ ^^ v , ^^^ which ^ H ^ H ^^ ^ ^^ w -w is ^ n ^ followed ^^ ^^ ^^ ' ^^ ^ . ^ , ^ H ^^~ ™ by a monologue to Gerard de Lairessethe

    Flemish artist . Together these two poems , present in noble language the poet's views of the

    mission and scope of art . The concluding apostrophe is devoted to music , and the name chosen

    is is that that or of ( Charles Jharles Avison Avison . , a a JN Newcastle ewcastle musician musician of the last century . The changes which occur in musical composition in different ages here

    occasion some marvellous thoughts . There is a prologue and an ilogue to the

    book , the former being a dial ep ogue between Apollo and the Fates ; the latter a dialogue

    between John Fust and his friends . Fust is he who rivals Gutenberg in the claim to the

    distinction of having invented the art of printing with movable types . He anticipatesin

    , Mr from . Browning the invention ' s creation . , evil as well as good

    in this Space hasty does account not permit of a book us to which give quotations demands

    student student careful . . stud Our Our y , an endeavour endftAvonr d which will has has ri been been chly reward to to roughly rouohlv the

    indicate the general features of the work by speaking of the characters who are addressed .

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    Almighty over all the Universe : — 0 Thou ! the one force in the whole variation

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    tv A mm , on this earth where Tbou bnngest about

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    dome ' But Earth Thy ' s fi clay nger floor impel from s it , out no weed but Th peeps finger audacious makes

    , y room For one world ' s want the more in Thy -Cosmos : presume

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    Who stumbled at g starting g , tripped up by a reed , Or Thou ? Knowledge only and absolute , glory

    Of As Th utter y spheric be Thine perfection who eoncedest to earth ' s a transitor spark y Existences ! Nothing that livesbut Thmark

    Gives law to—life's night . , y

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    This work is now in the 174 th year of its existence . Most of our peerages have had

    a pretty long life , and go on improving as they «/ grow ^ 3 older . This is distinctly the case ¦ \

    in connection with Debrett . There is hardly a country in the world , we imaginein which a pride in the origin and

    , renown well as of civilised ancestry nations is not ^ iave felt . this Savag feeling e , as but it is only where a country , has a written ;

    history that the traditions of ennobled families are engrafted upon the national history .

    Modern English tiooks of the peerage aspire to being something more than they were in times pastwhen their writers were ranked

    as pedigree-hat , chers , crotchety heralds , and still more , crotchety antiquaries . There is

    something like the elevation of history in the books of the present day . Long research has secured a degree of accuracy unknown before ,

    so that the volumes are valuable authorities for present and future historical students . Robert Glover , Somerset Herald in . the

    tim time e ot of Elizabeth . Elizabeth , is is said said to to have nave been been the tne first to collect materials , of this description ; his MS . being subsequently used by his

    nephew , Thomas Mills ( 16 iO ) , in preparing a ' Catalogue of Honour / Dugdale ' s ' Baronage '

    its ( lG 75 kind -7 t >) and was gained , of cours the e , hi the gh greatest opinion work that of it

    was ' a work , which will exist to the latest age as a monument *(« . vt ir of b its r v au r thor b *—> 'v s historical « - - ^ F *^ 0 * ^ v ^ p ¦ v * 4 . ^ b ^^^ ^^ s * ^^ 'k ^ 4 ^^^¦ v ^ ta ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ . ^^ ^^^^^ ** ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ . ' ^ — *— —— " ^^ —* * ^

    knowledge and antiquarian learning / Arthur Collinsoriginall- a bookselleris

    now known as a , painstaking y antiquary and , heraldic m vw writer . The ¦ first — ¦ r ~—* - edition - of his ^^>^^ tfw ^ h ^^^ ** ^ . ^^ fc ^^ ^^^ » w ^^ ^ " ™ ^^ ^*^ ^*™ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^ . ^ " —~^^ —— ¦ — — — — — —

    Peerage was published in 1709 . Of this work tm flb ^ a editions ¦ wmr were i ¦ ¦ published ¦¦ ; and throug _ _ - h

    many 4 ^* % ^^^ w ^** ^^ l » mm ^ raa ^ ^«^ ** m * w ¦ w ' ^^ « . " ^^ ™ ^ »^» ' — - ^ " •• ^^* — — — — -m ~ —^ — — . — % __ M the author ' s love of genealogy it was expanded to tf ii ~~ six w tf ^^ n . substan i * tr ^ m mm ti . i ^^»» al bfi » volumes - » vi -- . TJi r m e first ~ ~ ~ r edition ^^^^ # ^ y ^^ % ^^ B ^^^ v ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ' — ^ ^ — —— ^ *—^ " — ' —

    was a small book . Collins also published a * Baronetage Debrett h was of Eng likewise ¦¦ i land / a bookseller . The ¦¦

    ^ p ^^ r ^ t /^ » y wm ^ *^ m * ^^ ^ r w w w m ' " . " ^« p ^^ v » . wv ^ r w ^ . ^ ^^ - - — — — - - - — — - — work now published under his name has grown to large dimensions chiefly under the care of

    1 pani & * onage Debrett , Edite a Peprage l by Robert Baronetage Hair , LL Knightage D . London f and : Dean

    Comeon .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1887, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021887/page/7/