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correct principles of modern times, and adjusted almost to
the circumstances and considerations of private life, she
has lately undergone a minute and unsparing criticism,
which might appease the spirit of her injured rival, and
satiate the not altogether undeserved vindictiveness of
Rome. There were infirmities of heart and purpose about
her, (often in little things, and once or twice in great ones),
which it must have required, in an age when sovereigns
lived in the familiar presence of their subjects, all her
dazzling qualities to throw into the shade. It was un-
doubtedly the comparison with the Stuarts which canoni-
zed her with the next generation. But there is abundant
contemporary evidence that, without her crown, she would
have been still the most extraordinary person, whether for
capacity or resolution, in her renowned court. It was no
compliment of Burleigh's, who always spoke of her as the
wisest woman he had ever known."

" History" is an admirable criticism on seine
few of the ancient historians—more especially of
Livy (the Walter Scott of the Latin Chronicles),
whose character the Reviewer hits off with the ut-
most nicety. His observations on Sallust, espe-
cially where he finds fault with his skill, is more
questionable. " Keppel's Journey from India"
adds little to our stock of information on this
subject : accounts of Arabs from the Desert are
now become familiar in our mouths as house-
hold words ; and the authors of Anastasius and
the Kuzzilbash (the last especially) have ren-
dered the present cursory remarks superfluous.
" Memoirs of Lord Collingwood" is an equally
trite topic ; though we cannot but agree most
cordially with the spirit of the Reviewer's intro-
ductory remarks on his Lordship's public and
private character. He was in truth a model for
Englishmen to study. " The Nervous System"
will amply repay the perusal of those whom cir-
cumstance or inclination have led to the sub-
ject. To the uninformed, however, the Review
will appear too full of technical ratiocination.
On the whole the number is a good one.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XVIII.
LONDON, 1828.

A new class of writers, who may not inaptly
be styled Utilitarians, are fast rising into notice,
and some degree of popularity, chiefly from their
habit of appeal to the clap-trap common places
of society. These Puritans of literature arc for
referring every thing to Utility ; this is their sole
standard of excellence, whether moral, intellec-
tual, or political ; of the loftier energies of mind,
of all that contributes to furnish forth a charac-
ter for after ages, they arc profoundly and con-
ceitedly ignorant ; if they can only be useful for
tkeir day, and bring their small wit to a good
market, they are satisfied ; posterity must shift
for itself. To a certain extent they have hit
the prejudices of no inconsiderable portion of
the community ; all the half-educated are with
them ; those, we mean, who unable to reach the
heights of knowledge, arc content to creep round
the bottom, or ascend mid-way where the Utili-
tarians have stuck up their day-schools. So far
as a wish to he useful goes, these Pioneers of
the march of mind are entitled to our respect ;
but when they come forward and assert that
Utility is the sole business of life, that
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Utilitarians. Its pre.sent number more particu-
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