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By Julia Kavanagh

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of friendly freemasonry of their own ; and it
;htful to see the instinct or the habit de-
and adorned by literature. Mrs. Hemans,
ample, gives us the records of woman ; Miss
and atones for the neglect of historians by

ens of two ancient king-don

present writer gives us the Women
With great learning and pains she
1 the literature of most of the nations of
PTItIP hernires, whose lives

esented to us as

, were not the in

habitants of any one region. This variety of selec-
tion is very judicious, for the spirit which bore them
up is universal in space as well as in time. The

an elegant one, not only in its composition
lent, but in its externals ; and three well
I portraits present us with the " counter-
esentments " of those whose self-denying
were a monument more durable than brass.

and treatm

s a True Priest ? London : Whittaker and
Liverpool : Smyth and Co., Berry-street.
is a little essay of thirty-seven pages, .16m0.,
introduction of eight more, and notes to the
—Aty-three more. It appears that all
~ptems in reference to exclusive and specific
religious instructors is wrong ; Papist and Protes-
tant, Churchman and Dissenter, get a stroke alike.
ThP motto of the book is, " the priests thereof
.:e"; which is part of the complaint of
ophet Micah, when judges, priests, and pro-
phets had all become corrupt and mercenary. This
was the character of a section of a particular people
particular time, and others resembled them.
writer, with equal regard for truth, logic, and

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civility, quietly insinuates-that it is the character of
the clergy exclusively, and of all of them. In a
free country like this there will always be monoma-
niacs of this class, who, after vilifying their neigh-
bours to their heart's content, will complacently
thank God that they are not as other men. The
writer cannot be a class leader, for he quotes Greck
freely; but he may be a Mormon in disguise, sap-
ping the foundations of our Christian system. We
are amazed to see the names of two respectable
publishers attached to a treatise of this kind • and
we hope, for their own sakes, that they did not
know the nature of the book when they allowed
their names to be appended.

f Mystery, Imagination, and Humour, with
s. By Edgar Allen Poe. London : Henry

Vizetelly

This is the first of a series entitled " Readable
Books" ; but the ideas of the editor or publisher on
that subject seem to be somewhat peculiar. In the
preface he points out what various and peculiar
characters would understand by the terns, and
seems to infer that one man's idea on the subject is
almost as good as another's. Readable books should

not only be interesting but of general interest ; and
of course unobjectionable in their spirit and teach-
ing. Now, the present volume is the production of
an abandoned and incurable libertine of the United
States, whose disagreeable biography is minutely
given ; the illustrations are in several instances of
the penny publication class; and the tales, in gene-
ral wild or horrible, turn in two or three instances
on the laws of evidence, and the best modes of
hunting down thieves and murderers. There is a
sort of apology in the preface. Possibly he (the
publisher) might have begun with a better book,
but this was ready to his hand. We hope he will
be at more pains in the selection of the next and
others of his series.

The Dublin University Magazine, for April.

The number for the present- month is unusually
welcome to us, not that it contains better writing
than usual, or a larger amount of it, but from a
more suitable and interesting selection of subjects.
The first article is a review for April, entitled
" Sunshine and Shower" ; and, like the old pastoral
entitled Day, it contains three poems, on the morn-
ing, midday, and evening scenes. There are two
articles of the class biographical notices—the for-
mer in reference to Moore, which is accompanied
by a poetical lament, and the latter of Wm. Thom-
son, the naturalist, which is quite too brief. The arti-
cle entitled " Leaves from the Portuguese Olive,"
is connected with the literature of the country ; but
excellent topographical articles are the account of
Tory Island and the " Stray Leaves from Greece."
Somewhat of the same character is Sir John Ri-
chardson's Arctic Expedition. The article which
has interested us most, however, is the review of
Colonel Chesney's recent work on the Artillery and
Fire Arms. It is a distinct statement of what has
been done and what requires to be done in the art
of war ; and in our view the perusal of it would be
attended with great advantage to readers of every
class.