482 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



excellent medium for awakening the attention, and informing the understanding, 

 of Parliamentary electors, and, consequently, of inclining them to vote for honest 

 and independent candidates* 



We think we should but ill acquit ourselves of our bounden duty to this 

 "GREAT NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS;" to the ENLIGHTENED "MIDDLE 

 CLASSES;'' to the GREAT BODY POLITIC OF ENGLAND, were we, although 

 pressed for time as well as space, to omit to transfer to our pages a specimen of 

 this bold politician's style and text. Take the following, atpage 28 : 



" 5. The Amendment and Eeformatim of the Church Establishment. 



" In the amendment and reformation of the Church Establishment of England 

 and Ireland, all the tinkering, and tampering, and temporizing of ecclesiastical 

 ingenuity, even backed with the wisdom of * the heads of the law and the state,' will 

 not be of the least avail its official or clerical members must assume more apos- 

 tolical habits and manners more apostolical feelings and motives more apos- 

 tolical practices and employments, than those which they, in their clerical craft 

 and cunning, think proper to adopt and practise ; they must, for the purpose, 

 * cast off the old man with his deeds' they must first, ' with a pure heart, a good 

 conscience, and a faith unfeigned/ learn to * labour for and eat their own bread' 

 they must, instead of * cleaving to their own traditions' defending their 'world 

 of iniquity' their thrones, palaces, and fat livings, their tithes, enormous incomes, 

 and inordinate emoluments, with the tenacious grasp of the tiger, and an appetite 

 as keen and ravening as that of death strive, as much as in them lieth, to copy the 

 example, the ministry, and motives of their Divine Master, the meek, the lowly, and 

 the patient, forgiving, the holy and heavenly-minded Jesus. This, if they be 

 inclined, as * a holy priesthood, taking the oversight of the Church of God not for 

 filthy lucre's sake,' but with ' love unfeigned' they will endeavour to do ; and if 

 they put into practice and operation the following advice, they will have the con- 

 solation of being enabled to ' put to silence the ignorance of foolish men,' and to 

 reclaim and bring back their flocks from that infidelity and neglect of religious 

 duties that insensibility and indifference to spiritual and eternal interests 

 which, unhappily, now prevail among all classes of the community, and which 

 their greediness and selfishness have been the chief cause of engendering." 



We have small hesitation in recommending every intelligent person every 

 freeman every landowner every farmer every mechanic to possess this 

 * Political Legacy." 



Recollections of Filey. By JOHN EDWARDS. Derby, 1835. 



A POEM from the author of the " Tour of the Dove," however short, will ever be 

 acceptable to ourselves and the public. The veteran friend and correspondent of 

 Southey, Wordsworth, and the exquisite bard of the " World before the Flood," 

 may, like them, choose his own moment when, frdm the silence of his retirement, 

 he may come forth to scatter abroad the flowers he cultivates in silence and in 

 secresy. We know the gentle sanctity of their odour, and we are ever ready to 

 confess that, while the tint and form are true to nature, an ethereal spirit ever 

 breathes around them, and fills our imagination with the idea that they belong to 

 another world. Still there is no such thing as religious poetry, in the common 

 acceptation of the phrase, throughout the whole of the compositions of Mr. 

 Edwards. No where does piety take, in his writings, the stiff and settled position 

 of a fixed subject. His piety may be compared to the clear stream of his favourite 

 river, the Dove, which flows constantly through the beauties of nature, reflecting 

 the romantic rocks, the caverns, and the verdant hills upon its banks, and still is 

 ever bright with the light from heaven. 



The poem before us consists of no more than about eight-and-twenty short 

 stanzas : it is puiely descriptive, and its greatest merit is the graphic character of 

 passages which set the object pointed at correctly before the reader. Still the 



