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TUT MoDERS BRITISH EssAYIsTs: TO wit:
vdLT BABiscroN MAcArLAY; as pages, close -vo. 3
H. ARCHIBALD ALISON; (5'V
m REV SYDNEY SMITH; $50 y
Carey & Hart edition have just been sent US by
p,,gess stringer Il Co. We know not where 80
nncb instruction for mature ntellcc,s is combined
With 50 much delight as in these Essays. They
represent different phases Of the cultivated English
mind. but all deeply interesting Macaulay s, By al
oos universal consent, the best Reviewer Of Hsior
,calor Biographical works within the compass OF the
English tongue He narrates rapidly and wildly
the men, the time. the events he treats OF crowd
tb;ckly yet distinctly around you he gives you the
fact, and the moral in breath and what in another
ia bat an aniihcss. touched by his PEN leaps forth
An electric flash Of wit. His Philosophy is not al
WAYS profound; his Political and Social ethics are
often unsound yOu dispute bis conclusions yet
stand cnrapiurcd at the admirable art and felicity
with which he elidcs over all insupcrabe obstacles
and carries the unthinking reader straight to his
goal Macaulay il first among clever men, where he
nothing more.
Mr. ALISON, though famed az a Historian, is not
popularity eminent an Essayisi, but his essays
nave been read with interest by thousands who
knew not that their author was also author OF the
History OF Europe since 1883. Many OF the ablest
papers in Blackwoods Magazine on History Poll
tics and Continental Literature, are from his pen.
These are here collected, with some others, and a
few occasional Speeches. Many readers will recall
the articles on 'Chacaubriand,' Bossuet De
siscl,' Ney, 'Tyrol' Italy 'Mrabeau,' 'Guzot'
&c. &c which have appeared in Lakewood through
the last fifteen years. and which are here collected
closing with the article on Homer, Dante and Nj
chael Angelo in the January No. for ls45. Mr. Ali
son j. less brilliant but more earnest and rcverent
than Macaulay, and, though we cannot assent to his
Tory opinions, we believe few can read his essays
without decided profit
g. Rev. SYDNEY SMITH is oddly distinguished from
the the foregoing by his exuberant humor descend
ing often to righteousness. and especially prone 10
soothing 1T things which most men deem sacred
He must be deep or an odd man who, being asked
to read these three volumes and guess which was
the work of a clergyman. would designate Smiths
Ninety nine in every hundred would point 10 Ali
sons without hesitation. But though the Reverend
Sydney most economically reserved all his sanc,iil
for those who had the best claim to it having paid
for it, expressly be is a most pleasant summcrday
companion and in temporal matters wise coun-
selor He has hawk eye for detecting hypocrisy
cant or snufing, and q whip of scorpions for its
back. Wo to the selfseeking prctender who falls
into the hands Of this unmerciful satiris, he will
find himself layed alive and then rolled in hot EN-
bers We, denied the poor con ISOLATION of deporing
bis calamities In the very sweat of his grea,
agony he is compelled to laugh at the ludicrous
figure he cuts in his villainous nakedness, and to
grin while he inly groans. Sydney is keen OBJ
server and shrewd remarker he was little ma
licious a, times, and often unjusiifably personal
bat all that has persisted with the subjects and, alas
with the author OF this savage waggery.
These volumes are GOT up for cheap circulation,
and we might pick some flaws with them if it were
worth while We wish all the Poems of Macaulay
had been included in his Essays as they might
vel have been, since part are. Ii seems TO u
that little more Editorial labor ON the series would
not have been wasted However the works are
@good that we will not cavil at Incidental def
cxnces
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