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All the eastern forest fringes ; y more stateliness of demeanour—more gravity of the moment she c
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we,purpose. From the books he has already published reader becomes
Glory o'er the sky.
e. welcome, lord of summer, . with such success, his name at once suggests to the morals and a
4 "nl public a writer whose mind is richly store with anec- George 111.
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.'4 solid substratum of genuine erudition, clear and well- tication ;
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r_glade and breathless alley, . " He never knows* when he has too much of a good
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readers for mere amusement they will maintain
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strength. His preceding works were less pretentious
than the two volumes which he now presents to the
public ; and, in these latter, having prescribed to him-
self a more important task than any which he had
previously executed, he sets about its performance with
more stateliness of demeanour—more gravity of
purpose. From the books he has already published
with, such success, his name at once suggests to the
public a writer whose mind is richly stored with anec-
dotes and all manner of scrap lmowledge, along with a
solid substratum of genuine erudition, clear and well-
defined perceptions, good taste, and ready arrange-.
ment ; while, as counterpoises to these, may not unfre-
qUently be suspected a love of display, and a rather
over-intention of making the very most of his subject.
In other words, as Sheridan said of the play Wrights,
" He never knows when he has too much of a good
thing." With these trifling drawbacks, Dr. Doran is an
author whose writings will always command deserved
approbation among the class best qualified to form a
judgment of their value ; and in the wider range of
readers for mere amusement they will maintain an ex-
tensive popularity. They generally consist of cleverly-
hit and richly-coloured sketches, in which individuality
of feature and characteristic touch are made to do duty
for the higher excellences of generalisation of subject
and breadth of design. Like the works of the Dutch
masters, they are faithful representations of all that
can be overtaken by care and displayed by elaboration,
heightened,- here-and-thererj ust. a • suffieient.dash-of•
caricature torelip.N:e,thenl,,fsm*th'eellarg-e0f,,.—0-4nOt`olty..;
hi- presenf:Woile,whe': enters
and seeming resolutoiortnraoints..thtehn.ataskhasof-rbeenen his
dering;zt onm-; •
bplateut
fibisb
iogl:aopuhircal
ptill results in a series of animated
tableaux, in which leading characteristics are vividly
displayed, yet in which we desiderate the connecting
media which shall blend and unite them in a whole—
we find, as it were, here a head and there a hand—in
this spot we perceive a carbuncled nose, in that a
dimpled chin—the light flashes here upon a brawny
limb, and there displays a graceful torso ; but we
apply in vain to his canvass for the means of so assort-
ing these disjecta membra as would enable us to form
a correct idea of the completed figure or figures to which
the members respectively belong. We are furnished
with no guide to the composition—no -clue to the
' moral labyrinth which he presents to view, and are
unable to trace the design of the artist, or fully to
comprehend the purpose of his plan.
The Queens of England of the House of Hanover
have not been numerous, and, according to-the testi-
mony of contemporary history, the influence of some
of them has not been of a very salutary character. In
the two lively volumes which Dr. Doran has contrived
to cull out of the chequered incidents connected with
their lives, we have vivid, indeed strong, if not glow-
ing; pictures of the-licentiousness which, little better
than a century ago, pervaded, if it does not still per-
vade. the German Courts, of all degrees, small and
great. We learn also from these -pictures that the royal
ladies who were destined to perform so conspicuous a
part in our social polity, -had, in numerous instances,
their youthful ideas squared with the extravagances
referred to. In the course of his delineations, Dr.
Doran shows, that, at a comparatively early date, the
tone and colour of court life at Hanover were sweetened
and harmonized by milder influences than those pre-
valent at most of the other German Courts ; but still
he makes it plain enough, that the, manners of even
that comparatively pure court stood much in need of
refinement, that the prevalent sentiments might well
improve by elevation. After tracing the lives and
characters of the wives of George I. and George 11.,
as well as descanting pretty freely upon the coarse-
ness and questionable morality of those sovereigns 7—
tracing 'their antecedents and connections, and doing
the same by their royal consorts—he arrives, by a
natural sequence,_at the epoch of George 111. and his