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Bokinqa

Hookham and Sons

This is really a fashionable novel. It treats of
fashionable life; is evidently addressed to fashion-
able people, and is beautiful in the style of its
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Mildred Calder's eleme

Cease to live, if this must

senseless hearts throbbed wildly I

at the presence of her who seemed as though she were
born of a sunbeam in an hour of storm.
Mildred falls in love with a young clergyman,
but she is doomed to an early death through the
machinations

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a wide-spread popularity, which
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Selections Grave and Gay, from Writings Pub-
lished and Unpublished. By Thos. De Quineey.
Edinburgh : James Hogg.

st inveterate, though not
f literary gossips, Mr. De
Quincey has been allowed to stand for considerably
more than a quarter of a century, and at the head
of that remarkable corps he still manfully main-
tains his place. Possessed of an ever-active and
overflowing imagination, to the workings of which
he gives unlimited scope, the themes on which he
professes to write stand to him merely in the posi-
tion of so many pegs or pillars, as the case may
be, on or around which he shall hang all manner
[)f quaint conceits and every variety of lively sally.
Daring the greater portion of his long literary life
De Quincey has enjoyed the rare good fortune of
unstinted friendly intercourse with most of the
literary celebrities who, comet-like, have dazzled
the world with fitful gleams of erratic splendour ;
or who, planet-like, have filled the intellectual
hemisphere with the steady lustre and glowing
radiance of their genius. Among others who oc-
cupied distinguished places in his galaxy of friends,
he was privileged to number the proud names of
Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and though last,
not least, Wilson, the renowned and redoubtable
" Christopher North," besides a numberless host
of men, who albeit occupying a smaller space in
the world's eye than was claimed for and secured
by those Titans of our era, were nevertheless men
of brilliant genius and rare accomplishments,
nearly all of whom have left behind them works of
fame which an admiring world " would not wil-
lingly let die." It is not a little singular that,
notwithstanding his close intimacy and protracted
companionship with those men, De Quincey never
caught a spark of their ambition, and set seriously
about the composition of some work on which his
contemporaries could fix with delight, and from
which posterity might derive instruction and
inhale the fragrant odours of wisdom. Of the fer-
tility of his imagination, he has given abundant
evidence, and, in the exuberance-of its display, he
also unfolds charming seintilations of ideal beauty
and high culture. He evidently possesses a soul
which enabled him to sympathise and grapple with
the most profound of ethical riddles--to overflow
with tenderness or ne.telt at sorrow's tale—to revel
with the gay, and with the grave grow sad ; yet,
with all these talents and accomplishments, he has
achieved nothing by which his name will be re-
membered
in other guise than as the intellectual
• 'ellectual men. His own
own hands, will be found
',Tags from their cairns,
small degree by radi-
i
their more carefully
fact not less sorrow-
ay be accounted

At the head of t
least interests

associate of

monument, reared

chiefly to consist
and to be fliumins

ante accidentally

compounded fires.
ful than unfortunate

for from the des.

ta.,..,
ht, and the
f thoug
,mni, IMVP frittered

absence of (

away the gen

intellect powerful
happier guidance nii
the idol of an admit
distinguished name
which includes in it

and which und(

rendered its possessor
ng, and added another
brilliant brotherhood
of De Quincey's
Even

personal friends

-day associates

,;...empiation of De Quincey's life and
ies, and their unproductive result affords
r proof that

Nature never lends
iple of her excellence,
r goddess, she determines herself
'nigtory of a creditor, both thinks and use.

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