The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

FRASER'S MAGAZINE.

The " Tracts for the Times," which have
lately created such a sensation among the Li* h
'.'church party, forms the subject of the first ar-
ticle in this number. Of course the writer is
'averse_ to the views of the Tractarians as tending
`directly to Popery; but we think he underrates
their influence, for there can be no question that
the famous Tract, No. 90, has caused as much
excitenient in the religious' world, as Wilkes's
INOrth .Briton, No. 45, caused in the political
world, same seventy or eighty years ago. The
writer noneludes by expressing his belief that
certain individuals of the Tract party will go over
to Popery, , but that no great defection will take
Place from tie great mass of the clergy. Dis-
sent in . 1841 ". is an endeavour to prove that
- . heterodoxy is fast verging to its decline, and that
• ' votthodoxy is as ropidly regaining all the influence
ThaS lost diiring the last" century. - This is cer-
'' ,-3. iiily'lioti the -ca.4e, i4s regards the High Church
36a.`"ty.; while, as respects the Dissenters, we
:,'bell ve that, both morally and numerically,
-Alley are more powerful than ever. And • the
- '',..Olidne t of the Puseyite faction will assuredly'
• • --k 44..0t jlian:ish' their influence, which, we sup-
Pose, is t,'""te reason why the hierarchy regard
1,..): the proceect:'-ngs of
2.11€ i Literary Adverh`ore," 19 such. ._distrust Ibis stubborn section with
and . apprehension. "My first
is a common-placed.. re-
d,, , deemed from insiliditY by the in
I;enious, Spright-
-Iy-manner ia which it is worked tip.. - It .is a
small author's recoliction of his first lite.7r3,
perpetration in the shi2.pc of a small volume-01
Poems, which as a matter of course foundno fa
your in the es of' the boOkseller to whom they
were presentede for publication. " The Mystery"-
is a fantastic legend,'prettfinuch in the style.Of
the- German ballad. It is as enigmatical as one
of ficiffman's tales of diablerie. " The " Scien-
tific Associates" is a quiz upon the proceedings
%:kif some of our modern scientific associations.
'The author, however, is unlucky in his subject,
1, lor Boz has already exhausted the tlieme,in his
ak i,tnirable hoax, entitled the " Mudfog Associa-
'tio. a," which appeared about two years ago in
-.Ben .gey's Miscellany. " A Newspaper's Editor's,
Rem:.
'niscences" are palpable gossip, in which we
find ome reminiscences of 'the early life of
. ' Shelley. As these contain nothing re=
the' poet , we forbear to quote them.
are from the fertile pen of Mr.
niarkable, r„.. , ~
. -91'Gorinam 1.4.14
arsh, Afia (/discourses on his dainty theme
lAtiti
•
•Iclectitheir dinner hour, -IYttli exceeding'. unction.
His advice to his
.ueg ect, is as judicious as it
- -.treaders never to ilk
what-
ever else they muY
-- -is affectionate. gc The 1,741-11," says Dr. Johnson,
- who had a becoming vener:(l" for good eating
and drinking—" the man who neglects his din-
.ner,_ will soo n comet° neglect hig_ leYsocial du-
' iesp-.4. sound axiom, and worthy tt: be Atelji in
astrii4llsmembrance. In the course ."1:44
- 41, iNii tit iiiileni," Mr. Titinarsh pays the folios-
ink ; just tribute to the famed " Noctes Ailibro- 1

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