The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-02 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINES.

ARNOLD'S MAGAZINE.
The object of this periodical, to dissefillio
among all classes a relish for the Fine Arts'A
very public-spirited one, since by famili3rid
it to the contemplation of the refined
graceful conceptions of painters and sculpt.
the mind of a nation is insensibly strev,
ened, purified, and elevated. So far, therell
we give Arnold's Magazine high praise.
sorf
here we must stop. The different eoffpli
and critical notices are for the most part b
of aught but common-place, and as is inv3riletl
the case under such circumstances, the ssroii4
make up for a dearth of ideas by an it'll!) oet
array of epithet and metaphor, For instep;
an essay, headed " Dramatic LiterPlfe
we meet with such " no meaning" as this'lore'
" The softer graces of poetry are like flowers se!i,
over a mountain, whose wild fragrance recalls S'ol4
sations of the soul, and turns the human heart t°,,itt
the social affections and the tender springs of hull
Now, really, this is trash of which a '°;,),to
form boy at Eton would be ashamed. S'eri'
Rousseau, chancing to meet with the `t,` Proje
winkle" in one of his botanical trips at
Ipl
nonville, found his thoughts hurry back t°ol
happy days when he had last picked LIP 0
little flower in company with MadOleiyol
Warrens, we could understand and enter,
his feelings ; but this was a case of associ%ll
of ideas : in the present instance, witlwiltd
thing of the sort being adduced, the i 0
lays it down as an axiom, that it is
peculiar province of all flowers to recaq"e/
their " wild fragrance," the " sens3ti°„nisoe
what sensations ?—" of the soul." J.'
over, he assures us that every
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in the "whirlwind of' his pas tragic IR)

his thoughts towards a pathetic strain." In!
What a genius he must be, to be able to (II
passion and pathos at one and the same
ment I Mr. Bunn would give worlds for
a dramatic prodigy. Further on, the
observes,

" The illusion created by the artful constructi°Y
plot and the excellence of the plot., are perhaps for 5001
more affecting than the sad realities of woe in °pi,
life; because there is a more powerful concentr!V
incidents forced on the mind, without such a dig
from the objects displayed."
Mr. flazli ,hi ben

L._ .azlitt—than whom no man, iv--
judices did not interfere to cloud his jticlg"Vi
was ever more competent to discern truth/11
well explained the reason why the gener3.l/001
men are more affected by the representotl°
fictitious tragedies, than those of real We' 00/
is, says he, because the suffering in tbe lo°
instance costs them nothing but a few sighs,
tears ; in the other, it might make a de1113111:
the pockets—which is a prodigious Cl'ecOf
undue sensibility. Now we hold this /on
planation to be the only full and satis°li3
one of all the thousands we are constarit''
the habit of hearing and reading. ef
maining articles in the Magazine are licie
oft
above nor below par. We have single,
the one on " Dramatic Literature" f°r 00/'
ment, because it is an amazingly ambitiousoi
and puts forth pretensions to superior s3soiOr
i
By the bye, what has the article on tlv
Stock Banking Companies" to do
Fine Arts?

SPORTING aIA GA ZIN.E. 01
We have so little of the sportsman
composition such an extremely vague!?
faint idea of the pleasures of sersl/30i°
through a ditch or hedge on the haciVf
big horse, in company with a pack of u(jvce
no means rivalling nightingales in the Ine
their voices; we are so dead to the OP'
of sitting all day on a wet bank, lookietstl
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the water at a bit of cork (called a figiifw
believe) bobbing up and down, like a volici)
mandarin on a mantel-piece; we are se ,611),,
deficient in that particular " bump," vvh°;jiscro
and perfect development enables one “) o(,
rninate between the physical peculiarinegvl
barn-door-cock and a partridge; and I°l(i'r
down a grouse, with a heavy squash, sijr4o'o,oe
shutting one eye, and squinting with aleiire
Oo
along the barrel of a Manton ;—vve
utterly deficient in these and other such °'
,egc
requisites, that we fear we shall be looPol) e
anything hut orthodox authority on tbe, sgt 111,
of the Sporting Magazine. Neverthele efOeefi
can say thus much, viz., that 0413 j.
lishments of the present number are e 4 /00°I,
superior character. One is entitled the ``
ed Pheasant ;" the other is a portrait 0"0
Phillips, Esq ," or rather of his horse'jetileer,
first is the best, and there is even tedviii)°,,;
shown in the sketch of the mangled Or 1,005105
ing on the ground, with one wing eye'll'lA
flaccid and useless by its side, itS 010
distended, its mouth wrenched °Pei:: 51' OE
were, by the Convulsions of its agonY•
le 1)i1,16"
of the Ardennes" is a clever, ready v pi°
description;
but the " Sober Song' 11

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