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LITERARY

NOTICES

The Portion of Jezreel ; a Sacred Drama. By the Rev
Bradley. London : Painter

ave strong objections to what are called

sacred

this production ma

dramas; and whatever poetical merit

ave in the estimation of the author, it has not
uld serve
sufficient
-..suade us of their Scriptural propriety. It wo
nose objections in detail, but we may
t a sacred drama involves a contradiction
others
in
.round, -Mr. Bradley, like some

o ptirp(

to discuss

terms ; and on that
lo have walked in the same path, is
lat. no less than a literal, absurdit

ble to the charge of

What is a

an int+
drama

The meaning of the Greek word is, a poem accom-
A drama, therefore, is a poem in which
ticrn is not related but represented; and in " The
-" Mr. Bradley has observed, as far as he

modated to action

Portion of Jezreel'

iry to make the represent

Narrative there is none : it is sacrificed to
dramatic considerations. The work, then, being essentially
dramatic, can it be at
t the
Psaau l shall answer this me time sacred—that
question—
is, Scrip-
tural or spiritual ? S.
" All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is pro-
fitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruc-
tion in righteousness, that the man of God h
maW y bere is the
e perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works."
authority that it shall profit by representation ? Nowhere;
and not only so, but the whole of the sacred word is narra-
not representative. Mr. Bradley, in the one case,
besides being reduced ad absurdani,has, in the other (though
we admit he may plead example), either overlooked or mis-
understood the practical character of the Eternal Volume.
In either view, the dramatization of any part of it, though
for the closet only, is exceedingly unworthy.
Concerning the work as a poem, little need be said. It is
"y written. There are scattered passages of con-
siderable energy, but tameness and languor are its pre-
vailing characteristics.

could, all the rules neces

probable

unequal

Church Clavering : or the Schoolmaster. By the Rev. W.
Greeley, M.A., Prebendary of Lichfield. Burns, London.
We certainly were never enamoured with Mr. Gresley's
writings, and the perusal of the work before us has not tended
to exalt oar opinion of him as an author. His object is to
direct attention to the momentous subject of education,
especially its true principles—not as he implies in the pre-
face, to discuss the details, but to aid as best be may in dis-
seminating sound principles. And what is alleged by Mr.
Greeley to be the leading design—the main object—of educe-
- ;t in his own words.

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