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the fold again

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There is joy amongst the holy angelsin
leer grieves and comes back."
dreamy way without

xpec!ipg.

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Must I go away

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faces like mamma

In descriptive power the author, or rather, as
suspect, the authoress, of this charming tale
pplq ig 2s much at home as in delineation of

And sev

character

The present
ture of the

.k cont

ains a highly-
of Martindale

wrought
Tall wit

Les of confusion,
nxiety—not unmingled with dashes
0 i
1 invariably accompany such a scene. It is
and vividly drawn ; but the writer's forte is
_festly in the pathetic, and that vein is freely
t not lavishly indulged in, in different portions
L the work.

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The Works of William Cowper

Poems, Correspondent
With a Life of the Author
LL.D. London : Henry G. Bohn
This beautiful, comprehensive, cheap, and ele-
gantly illustrated edition of Cowper, by Southey,
is drawing to a conclusion, the volume before us
being the sixth, and two others being now all that
are wanted to complete the series. The present
volume contains " The Task," with a copious in-
dex ; the poetical epistles, and a large collection of

By R. Southey

As'alid

His fang,

andered,

Were dear ones, meekly k

Were pea'

all for him

And as many a strick,
Death's darkening

minor poems ; in addition to these it hi
braces the translation, jointly made by Cowper and
his friend and biographer Hayley, of "Adam : a
sacred drama," by Gio. Battista Andreini, from
which not a few of the literary cognoscenti insist
that Milton borrowed extensively in his composition
of Paradise Lost. Viewed in connexion with this
disputed subject, the translation assumes an in-
terest not its own, and must be looked on as a
valuable literary curiosity. The pictorial illustra-

e

the present volume are eight in number

all landscapes, with the —exception of a
scene from " John Gilpin," from the pencil of
W. Harvey. The illustrations are cleverly en-
graved ; and by their number, as well as by the
delicacy and beauty of their execution, they greatly
enhance the value of the work, notwithstanding
which it is published at an exceedingly cheap rate.

And prayed

and ar

By Black Tcherna

Lay English soldiers

ch in big bed of bloo,

And soon in E

The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin: James
M`Cdashan.

The shadow dark

The November number of this magazine is an
axceedingly good one, being filled with contribu-
tions of more than common interest. It opens
with an elaborate and carefully-prepared paper on
the " Expedition to the Crimea," in which that
topic, so fertile in themes of present speculation
and discussion, is ably handled. The portion
published is only the first part of the paper, and
commencing with the matters preliminary to the
landing of the Allied Armies in that peninsula, it
finishes with the victory at Alma, in which the
difficulties encountered and overcome by the gal-
lantry and conduct of the French and British
troops are vividly, yet truthfully delineated. The
number, besides many papers of general interest
and variety, contains an able one on " WoLsey,"
Since the magic pencil of Scott dropped from his in which that distinguished churchman's character
once powerful and obedient hand, numerous artistes as a statesman and diplomatist is considered, and
have essayed to delineate the workings of the compared with those of his most celebrated con-
emporaries and successors. Under review of the
t
human heart as these are evinced in scenes and
magazine writer, the lowly-born but aspiring boy
circumstances connected with the business of
every-day life. In fine conception, delicate yet •
of Ipswich stands' out in prominent an flattering
f vulgar, th otharistocrat herd
truthful portraiture, graceful drawing and forcible relief rom the out, e,by
yet full-toned colouring, none of the "Great Magi- which he was surrounded, fawned on, hated,
clan's" successors have outstripped the beautifully- dreaded, and ultimately spurned and treated with
contumely. The writer dwells with much favour
idealised creations which have emanated from the
richly-stored and finely-tutored mind of Warren •
on the magnanimity of Wolsey's numerous chari-
and' ties—palliates many, indeed most of the crimes
few have equalled the varied truthfulness and
skilfully-touched individualities of Bulwer. Lock- h d against him,' andconcludes by claiming
cferarigl
highha lths
lte
hart, though a vigorous and dashing limner,apdaveaencaeme the
ao.oeeinexwahichd
intellects wloio farin
retired early from this field of literature—not, how-
they lived, have,' by their sagacity 'a
firmness,
daring until he had left the bold impress of his
conferred lasting benefits on the posterity of those
daring intellect in vivid hues and bold relief upon
the glowing pages of " Mathew Wald" and " Adam who misunderstood, feared, and finally persecuted
them. Other biographical sketches and reviews
Blair," and in the stirring incidents of" Valerius"
had displayed the fertility of his imagination—the to fill the
contribute up valuable pages of a more
than ordinarily
.val.uable number of one of our
warmth and brilliancy of his fancy. Wilson's highest-class periodicals.
efforts in prose fiction, confined almost exclusively
to the display of tenderness and simple virtue, as
Decimal Coinage. By Theodore W. Rathbone.
these qualities were exhibited among the unsophis- London : Ridgway.
ticated sons and daughters of his native glens and
mountains, have been by many looked on as too We have, on more than one occasion, expressed
limited in their sphere of representation to do our opinion that any system of decimal coinage is
justice to their author's powers, or to entitle him not only impracticable, but of very little value. In
to a place in the foremost rank of those master- the work be fore us, Mr. Theodore Rathbone has
minds who inculcate great truths and convey im- displayed great ability and research, and given, in
portant moral and religious axioms through the as clear and intelligible a form as the subject is
teachings of fiction. Besides the writers named, capable of, a comparative statement of the different
greater or less degree of
many others have, with a Plans of decimal accounts and coinage which have
success, endeavoured to make men better, wiser, been proposed by the witnesses examined before
happier, by exhibiting virtue in its native loveli- the Committee of the House of Commons, and
ness, and contrasting it with the harsh repulsive- others ; together with a Compendium of various
, ice. Among these, within a comparatively , statements on the subject. Those, therefore, who
recent period, the reading public had its interest take an interest in the question, have here an op-
stirred rather than gratified by the appearance of portunity of acquiring a knowledge of all that has
an unobtrusive tale in one of the numerous reli- been, or perhaps can be, said upon it, without the
gious publications of the day, entitled " Henrietta's fatiguing labour of wading through a Blue-book.
Wish ;" in which the chords of the heart were so The number of plans which have been proposed is,
strongly yet unassumingly touched as to indicate its in itself, an-evidence of the difficulties with which
author's competency to strike a boldeinote, and fling the subject is surrounded ; but we are free to con-
the profusion of his richly-toned harmonies over a fess that, if anything could reconcile us to an al-
wider circle of admirers. This was accomplished in teration, it would be the plan which Mr. Rathbone
the " Heir of Redclyffe," which immediately sprung himself suggests. He proposes to retain the present
into a deserved extent of popularity and well- pound as the standard of value, and also the penny,
rooted favour tale before but to substitute silver pieces of five:pence and

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iped and prayer

And for

Ventnor, Nov. IS, 1834

F. E. V

First Sunday

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London J

ness of

d to the inferesting,

us that popularity and favour are sure to be ten-pence for the six-pence and shilling, with
extended. The story of " Heartsease" is simple, which they might for a time circulate simulta-
and the incidents in the hands of most writers taneously. The great point, however, is to make
would have remained common-place ; but touched out a case of necessity for the change. This has
by the life-giving wand of genius, without losing not been done, and we adhere to the opinion, that
their simplicity and naturalness, they are invested the only good to be effected is a slight saving of
with an interest which arrests, secures, and repays labour in keeping accounts, while the evils would
be manifold in a general confusion of all the minor
,d its materials natural ; monetary transactions throughout the country.
the daughter of an in-
To those, however, who still entertain a feeling in
awyer, in the "Lake dis-
favour of a decimal system as a substitute for our
impulsive and susceptible
present pounds, shillings, and pence, we cordially
Martindale, a younger son recommend Mr. Rathbone's book, as one of the
i his marriage with so
best and most comprehensive which has yet ap-
se, a matter of much nn- Feared on the subject. We may remark that, at
•
easiness to his aristocratic family. Violet, the the bottom of the title-page, is the very appropriate
" Heartsease" of the tale, is in all respects a charm-
affix :—" Price Tenpence."
ing creature. Simple, amiable, and reliant—
although in reality, and perfectly unknown to The Illustrated London Magazine.
herself, as it was unsuspected by others, possessed Piper & Co.
—,qt natural strength of mind, aided by acute In this age of cheap literature,the above magazine
-1-med religious principle. Her con- may fairly challenge rivalry both for quantity and
"%aodora, the strong-minded, quality, and no doubt commands, as it deserves, a
)11y-cultivated, yet uncor- very large share of public patronage. Its list of
Apted, sister o. dent, though somewhat un- contributors includes names well known to fame,
stable bridegroom. After the first outburst of such as the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Fanny Fern, Lady
family disquiet, occasioned by the marriage, has Emmeline Stuart Wortley, Horace Mayhew, Mayne
subsided, the newly-wedded pair are received into Reid, and others. Above forty quarto pages, pro-
the domestic circle at Martindale-hall, where the fusely illustrated with well-executed wood en-
natural beauty and graces of mind and manner gravings, and published at sixpence, should prove
evinced by the humbly-born Violet gradually van- a sufficient temptation, and place any idea of com-
quish the pride and dispel the prejudices of her petition out of the question.
husband's family, and she becomes not only a
favourite but a leader in the circle to which she
,pd with so cold and chilling a
nircle she introduces a prac-
.r ow, eligious and moral
feeling, showing at one an example and a triumph
This, of course, is not

ttentior

triguing

pettifi

trict," captivates ti

heart of Captain Arthur
of Lord Martindal
plebeian a bride is

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London

and well-d

aristocratic and thoroug

Chambers

Journal. London : Chambers

The part for November of this highly-popular
periodical contains Mr. W. Chambers' concluding
letter on " Things as they are in America." His
former letters contained chiefly descriptions of
what he saw, but in this he enters into some ge-
neral observations which are well entitled to at-
tentive peiusal. With much that he finds to praise
he does not sermilp fn Mama antl bo glindloo

cr own high r(

unce and the severe
mainst accumulated

,ra ptbags of expe

ie dramatic

iaracters arc

to the slavery in the South as the great plague-
spot on American civilisation—tending to the ulti-
mate dismemberment of the Union—he also points
to the contemptuous exclusion of coloured races in
the North as a social evil equally blameable. A
new story is commenced, entitled " Maretimo," by
Bayle St. John, which promises to prove interest-
ing. There is also the usual selection of enter-
taining and instructive articles by which Cham-
bers' Journal maintains its long established-repu-

ited and

shed by its

ohnm

Tnme (

xn Illustrated Magazine
?tithe F

Literatul

Criticism. a

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Liverpool : W. S. Orr and Co.

T of this periodical (its

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