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very numerous , and arc based on fair calculations ; in fact they are superior to any that have fallen under our observation ; and wc take leave of Mr . Neison for the present , with many thanks for the opportunity afforded us of profiting by his elaborate work , and . hopeful that his own expectation of adding further Contributions to Vital Statistics will be realized at no distant period .
The Tiara and the Turban . 2 vols . By S . S . Hills , Esq . Madden and Malcolm . The author , in these volumes , relates his " impressions and observations on character within the dominions of the pope and the sultan , " an interesting subject , and particularly so at the present moment , when a " movement" in the political relations of both countries is pretty generally perceptibleand in which the author himself appears to participate .
Va-, rious scenes are graphic and pleasing , and altogether free from pedantic effort . In having occasion , after leaving Bologna , to use oxen in addition to horses , they are described as " the imiwaculate white oxen of the country now , as when the poet of the Augustan age sang the praises of their unmixed ancl spotless beauty , their strength and their docility . " Fair Florence comes in for well-deserved praise , both its country ancl inhabitants , as does Tuscany , for being altogether a well-governed ancl
contented country . The comparison of comforts is alluded to , and the usual axiom is leversed , for it seems that in Italy every man ' s business is every man ' s , which however was found to be more friendly than convenient or agreeable . The approach to the Eternal City was marked by the sterile and inferior appearance of the country from Tuscany . The exclamation of a passenger , " Roma . '" caused every head to peer suddenly from the windows of the Vetturino , and all else was forgotten but its absorbing interest . The taking of the veil by a young female is not incorrectly termed a human sacrifice , as equally contrary to the law of
nature and the Creator ; but the character of a Roman priest is sadly repulsive , and we hope the author is misinformed as to its being one of a class . The chapter on murder and sacrilege is startling ; yet is there in it an air of probability that absolution is freely given for confessed murder , when not only is it refused to a poor wretch whom starvation compelled to steal a vessel of silver from the church , but the same priest blasphemously declared , that in the world to come a still more dreadful
penalty awaited the sinner . — " Thou art excommunicate . "—Both were executed . Although the author ' s sojourn in Rome must have been too brief to allow an extended examination into the subjects of religious policy ; still he proves how much can be effected by a keen observer . The Neapolitans have curious notions on English gastronomy ; but as a science , their own is far less delicate . In one of the
boardinghouses , the author is introduced to a judge ancl his wife ; the former was a bad judge of his own interests , for he wrote a work to benefit the public , which being displeasing to the government , the judge was sent to the right about . In describing a quadrille , the author gallantly observes , that having faJlen into the " yellow leaf , " he was fortunate in having a partner sc fair , quick , lovely , and intelligent , that he might he pardoned for having forgotten the number of his winters , and felt the gaiety , elasticity , and perhaps the passion of his earlier years . A monastic drama , founded on Adam and Eve in Paradise , appears to have VOL . III . 3 E
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Literary Notices, &C.
very numerous , and arc based on fair calculations ; in fact they are superior to any that have fallen under our observation ; and wc take leave of Mr . Neison for the present , with many thanks for the opportunity afforded us of profiting by his elaborate work , and . hopeful that his own expectation of adding further Contributions to Vital Statistics will be realized at no distant period .
The Tiara and the Turban . 2 vols . By S . S . Hills , Esq . Madden and Malcolm . The author , in these volumes , relates his " impressions and observations on character within the dominions of the pope and the sultan , " an interesting subject , and particularly so at the present moment , when a " movement" in the political relations of both countries is pretty generally perceptibleand in which the author himself appears to participate .
Va-, rious scenes are graphic and pleasing , and altogether free from pedantic effort . In having occasion , after leaving Bologna , to use oxen in addition to horses , they are described as " the imiwaculate white oxen of the country now , as when the poet of the Augustan age sang the praises of their unmixed ancl spotless beauty , their strength and their docility . " Fair Florence comes in for well-deserved praise , both its country ancl inhabitants , as does Tuscany , for being altogether a well-governed ancl
contented country . The comparison of comforts is alluded to , and the usual axiom is leversed , for it seems that in Italy every man ' s business is every man ' s , which however was found to be more friendly than convenient or agreeable . The approach to the Eternal City was marked by the sterile and inferior appearance of the country from Tuscany . The exclamation of a passenger , " Roma . '" caused every head to peer suddenly from the windows of the Vetturino , and all else was forgotten but its absorbing interest . The taking of the veil by a young female is not incorrectly termed a human sacrifice , as equally contrary to the law of
nature and the Creator ; but the character of a Roman priest is sadly repulsive , and we hope the author is misinformed as to its being one of a class . The chapter on murder and sacrilege is startling ; yet is there in it an air of probability that absolution is freely given for confessed murder , when not only is it refused to a poor wretch whom starvation compelled to steal a vessel of silver from the church , but the same priest blasphemously declared , that in the world to come a still more dreadful
penalty awaited the sinner . — " Thou art excommunicate . "—Both were executed . Although the author ' s sojourn in Rome must have been too brief to allow an extended examination into the subjects of religious policy ; still he proves how much can be effected by a keen observer . The Neapolitans have curious notions on English gastronomy ; but as a science , their own is far less delicate . In one of the
boardinghouses , the author is introduced to a judge ancl his wife ; the former was a bad judge of his own interests , for he wrote a work to benefit the public , which being displeasing to the government , the judge was sent to the right about . In describing a quadrille , the author gallantly observes , that having faJlen into the " yellow leaf , " he was fortunate in having a partner sc fair , quick , lovely , and intelligent , that he might he pardoned for having forgotten the number of his winters , and felt the gaiety , elasticity , and perhaps the passion of his earlier years . A monastic drama , founded on Adam and Eve in Paradise , appears to have VOL . III . 3 E