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Review Of Literature.
AA'hile we are thus expressing our regret that the book was ever written , we must pass a vote of censure where , for the first time , and we hope for the last , it has ever been required . The name of Kemble has immortalized the drama ; —the licence for this piece , if granted , has permitted an outrage upon public morals , ivhich must he redeemed by future caution , or the laurels of the actor ivill he lost in the fault of the licenser . Colman confessed that , as a licenser , he ivould not have
permitted his own comedy of John Bull to be played , unless many expressions ivhich it contained were expunged . Either the office of a licenser means nothing , or the licenser himself is amenable to public opinion . AVe , in this censure , do not attempt to deny that , as a composition , there is considerable talent in the novel ; but all its talent and ingenuity cannot varnish over its defects—it distances Paul Clifford by more than a length , and wants the few points which made that work endurable . it is true
The present manager of Drury Lane Theatre has , , a precedent for his naming his pantomime after the gaol bird , and if cleverly managed , the satire may excuse the necessity ; in the olden time , Drury took the idea from the facts as they really happened ; we hope the mania for " Jack Sheppardism" may find a wholesome correction in that species of whim , fun , and true satire which made the contemporaries of Grimaldi regard him with more than cheerfulness . We
sincerely wish success to Hammond and the legitimate drama . Heads of the People ; or Portraits of the English . Robert Tyas . London . —Already have we spoken in terms of hearty commendation on the earlier sketches in this national work , and we have therefore the less to say now that the publication has extended , number by number , to a
o-oodly volume , with the promise of more to come . Commencing our remarks on these " Heads of the People" with the very heading , it is no scant praise to Kenny Meadows the artist , or to Orrin Smith the engraver , to say that there is scarcely a single bead in the lot that is not capitally designed , cleverly executed , and as accurately copied . And such a varied host of them , too—upivards of forty—beginning with " The Dress-maker , " and ending with " The Printer ' s Devil . " Fortunate betiveenfor mischievous of these
it is that there is so long a list , as some damsels are , we would not have even " The Printer ' s Devil" too close at their elbows . The literary portion of the work is more unevenly performed ; this we regret the more , because we believe it to have been needless . AATiy , ivith the pungent satire and deep philosophy of Jerrold—the humanising and loveable portraitures of Leigh Hunt—the playful wit and close the acknowled excellencies of
observation of Laman Blanchard—and ged some two or three others we could name , were writers of lesser note associated ? To none but the most successful in similar essays shonld such a task be entrusted . We say not this in disparagement of the work , far from it . It is unequalled , even with the trifling want of care we have denoted—that care bestowed upon it , the work would ever have remained perfectlunique and unapproachable . Nor ivould we have given words
y to this opinion of dissent , were it not that there is yet time for the spirited and successful publisher to amend , in the future progress of the " Heads of the People , " the few errors in the past . The Priory of Chilton-super-Polden , and its Contents ; with a Miscellaneous Appendix . By AVilliam Stradling . George Aubrey , Bridgewater ; and M . Edwards and F . Crew , London . —This singularl y pleasant antiquarian brochure is dedicated , by the author—who to the
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Review Of Literature.
AA'hile we are thus expressing our regret that the book was ever written , we must pass a vote of censure where , for the first time , and we hope for the last , it has ever been required . The name of Kemble has immortalized the drama ; —the licence for this piece , if granted , has permitted an outrage upon public morals , ivhich must he redeemed by future caution , or the laurels of the actor ivill he lost in the fault of the licenser . Colman confessed that , as a licenser , he ivould not have
permitted his own comedy of John Bull to be played , unless many expressions ivhich it contained were expunged . Either the office of a licenser means nothing , or the licenser himself is amenable to public opinion . AVe , in this censure , do not attempt to deny that , as a composition , there is considerable talent in the novel ; but all its talent and ingenuity cannot varnish over its defects—it distances Paul Clifford by more than a length , and wants the few points which made that work endurable . it is true
The present manager of Drury Lane Theatre has , , a precedent for his naming his pantomime after the gaol bird , and if cleverly managed , the satire may excuse the necessity ; in the olden time , Drury took the idea from the facts as they really happened ; we hope the mania for " Jack Sheppardism" may find a wholesome correction in that species of whim , fun , and true satire which made the contemporaries of Grimaldi regard him with more than cheerfulness . We
sincerely wish success to Hammond and the legitimate drama . Heads of the People ; or Portraits of the English . Robert Tyas . London . —Already have we spoken in terms of hearty commendation on the earlier sketches in this national work , and we have therefore the less to say now that the publication has extended , number by number , to a
o-oodly volume , with the promise of more to come . Commencing our remarks on these " Heads of the People" with the very heading , it is no scant praise to Kenny Meadows the artist , or to Orrin Smith the engraver , to say that there is scarcely a single bead in the lot that is not capitally designed , cleverly executed , and as accurately copied . And such a varied host of them , too—upivards of forty—beginning with " The Dress-maker , " and ending with " The Printer ' s Devil . " Fortunate betiveenfor mischievous of these
it is that there is so long a list , as some damsels are , we would not have even " The Printer ' s Devil" too close at their elbows . The literary portion of the work is more unevenly performed ; this we regret the more , because we believe it to have been needless . AATiy , ivith the pungent satire and deep philosophy of Jerrold—the humanising and loveable portraitures of Leigh Hunt—the playful wit and close the acknowled excellencies of
observation of Laman Blanchard—and ged some two or three others we could name , were writers of lesser note associated ? To none but the most successful in similar essays shonld such a task be entrusted . We say not this in disparagement of the work , far from it . It is unequalled , even with the trifling want of care we have denoted—that care bestowed upon it , the work would ever have remained perfectlunique and unapproachable . Nor ivould we have given words
y to this opinion of dissent , were it not that there is yet time for the spirited and successful publisher to amend , in the future progress of the " Heads of the People , " the few errors in the past . The Priory of Chilton-super-Polden , and its Contents ; with a Miscellaneous Appendix . By AVilliam Stradling . George Aubrey , Bridgewater ; and M . Edwards and F . Crew , London . —This singularl y pleasant antiquarian brochure is dedicated , by the author—who to the