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Review Of Literature The Drama. &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , THE DRAMA . & c
Sermons on Doctrine and Practice . By the Rev . T . T . Haverfield , B . D . Straker . —This is the second volume , or series of pulpit discourses by our reverend Brother , and is by no means inferior to the first , to which it may be said to form a very essential continuation . The number of sermons are eleven , each of them grounded upon carefully selected portions of Scripture , and all beaming with those bright truths , which a reflecting mind , disposed to holiness , can observe with confidence to be leasantness and
emanating from a lively faith , and teaching the ways of p peace . These are the truest objects of religion , and they have been well approached by the careful hand of a " Master in Israel . "—Sermons cannot be examined as other works ; it is not that theoretical investigation is improper , but there ever must be a subdued spirit , while perusing a holy page , that softens , chastens , and inspires , ancl thus creates impressions to which criticism is as a stranger . AVe may , however , observe , that while the '' Widow of Nain , " is among the sweetest , so the " Unmerciful Servant , " appears to us the most argumentative of the series .
Seopwickiana . By the Vicar of a secluded Village . Drury , Lincoln . —To say that we have been pleased with this very delightful little volume would indeed be to speak " faint praise ; " there is in its unpretending pages so much playful humour , so much simple sweet reasoning , with so much research , that we have been led to regret that an opportunity has not been afforded for two volumes . The subject itself , the author ' s graphic powers , his great intellectual attainments , would have given to circumstances a surface of greater extent—but after allhe is the best
, judge—and instead of a large historical painting , he has presented us with an elegant cabinet one . The Vicar of the secluded Village has most happily seized upon some well written passages in a paper that appeared in Blackwood's Magazine , wherein surprise is felt that clergymen do not oftener write accounts of their parishes— " epitomizing" all things , from " the peer ' s palace to the peasant ' s hut , " AVe hope the author of the in question has been enabled to jud with what singular
paper ge , fidelity our Vicar has entered into his feelings , and how perfectly , to use his own words , we have been " delighted , as on a summer ramble , now in sunshine ancl now in moonlight , over hill and dale , adorned with towers , turrets , pinnacles of halls antl churches , and the low roofs , blue or brown , slated or
strawed—Of huts where poor men he . Few men , like Dr . Oliver , can study the " book of Nature " with such advantage , for to him a leisure moment is the holiday of the mind . A Manual ofthe Diseases of the Eye . F . Littel , M . D ., revised by Hugh Houston . Churchill . —Iu this treatise there is collated and condensed with care ancl erudition a great mass of valuable matter—so
valuable indeed that we have no hesitation in stating , if the student will but read , and reflect upon the volume , he may not find it so absolutely necessary ( unless he has sufficient time ) to examine more voluminous authors . The opinions expressed by both author ancl revisor throughout the book , stamp them as men of sound practical knowledge .
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Review Of Literature The Drama. &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , THE DRAMA . & c
Sermons on Doctrine and Practice . By the Rev . T . T . Haverfield , B . D . Straker . —This is the second volume , or series of pulpit discourses by our reverend Brother , and is by no means inferior to the first , to which it may be said to form a very essential continuation . The number of sermons are eleven , each of them grounded upon carefully selected portions of Scripture , and all beaming with those bright truths , which a reflecting mind , disposed to holiness , can observe with confidence to be leasantness and
emanating from a lively faith , and teaching the ways of p peace . These are the truest objects of religion , and they have been well approached by the careful hand of a " Master in Israel . "—Sermons cannot be examined as other works ; it is not that theoretical investigation is improper , but there ever must be a subdued spirit , while perusing a holy page , that softens , chastens , and inspires , ancl thus creates impressions to which criticism is as a stranger . AVe may , however , observe , that while the '' Widow of Nain , " is among the sweetest , so the " Unmerciful Servant , " appears to us the most argumentative of the series .
Seopwickiana . By the Vicar of a secluded Village . Drury , Lincoln . —To say that we have been pleased with this very delightful little volume would indeed be to speak " faint praise ; " there is in its unpretending pages so much playful humour , so much simple sweet reasoning , with so much research , that we have been led to regret that an opportunity has not been afforded for two volumes . The subject itself , the author ' s graphic powers , his great intellectual attainments , would have given to circumstances a surface of greater extent—but after allhe is the best
, judge—and instead of a large historical painting , he has presented us with an elegant cabinet one . The Vicar of the secluded Village has most happily seized upon some well written passages in a paper that appeared in Blackwood's Magazine , wherein surprise is felt that clergymen do not oftener write accounts of their parishes— " epitomizing" all things , from " the peer ' s palace to the peasant ' s hut , " AVe hope the author of the in question has been enabled to jud with what singular
paper ge , fidelity our Vicar has entered into his feelings , and how perfectly , to use his own words , we have been " delighted , as on a summer ramble , now in sunshine ancl now in moonlight , over hill and dale , adorned with towers , turrets , pinnacles of halls antl churches , and the low roofs , blue or brown , slated or
strawed—Of huts where poor men he . Few men , like Dr . Oliver , can study the " book of Nature " with such advantage , for to him a leisure moment is the holiday of the mind . A Manual ofthe Diseases of the Eye . F . Littel , M . D ., revised by Hugh Houston . Churchill . —Iu this treatise there is collated and condensed with care ancl erudition a great mass of valuable matter—so
valuable indeed that we have no hesitation in stating , if the student will but read , and reflect upon the volume , he may not find it so absolutely necessary ( unless he has sufficient time ) to examine more voluminous authors . The opinions expressed by both author ancl revisor throughout the book , stamp them as men of sound practical knowledge .