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pily. Those which pleased us most are in Peregrine Pickle " Trunnison's leap 

 over the Waggon" the " Painter's escape from the Bastile" the "Thin black 

 Hairs" and the " Tailors presenting arms to the Bailiffs." In Humphrey 

 Clinker, the drowsy nonchalance of Clinker, compared with the consternation 

 in Tabitha's eyes, which are peeping over her fan at an exhibition which Wini- 

 fred is evidently glancing at with the greatest satisfaction, is admirable; so is the 

 humour of the plate, at page 208, where Humphrey, having seized old Bramble's 

 ear, is making for the shore, with his reprisal at sea. In Tom Jones, the 

 illustrations are equally good; but those where Cruikshank, however, has 

 been most happy, are the discovery of Philosopher Square pent up in the closet, 

 the face and position of the affrighted sentinel, and the detection of Partridge's 

 amour with the gipsy. 



CHOZAR AND SELA ; OR THE SIEGE OF DAMASCUS ; AND OTHER POEMS, BY 

 JAMES FLETCHER, TRIN. COLL. CAM., AUTHOR OF " HISTORY OF 

 POLAND." SECOND EDITION. 



An extremely interesting little volume, that will be appreciated by every lover 

 of poetry. The best compliment we can pay the author is to quote a short 

 specimen : 



" SONNET. 



" The sculptured stone may never bear my name, 



To draw forth liquid sorrow from the eye 

 Of after time, and live embalmed by fame, 



An endless life of grateful memory. 



Ah ! no : such hope in me were far too high ; 

 For if the glow of genius ever came 



Firing my soul with heavenly ecstacy, 

 It was unseen as the sepulchral flame, 

 That never flashed upon the face of day, 

 But 'midst devouring darkness pass'd away. 



The few beloved, howe'er, who read my mind 



To them unveiled, 'mid many faults could find 

 Something to love, and till their hearts decay, 



My memory fresh will live in love enshrined." 



THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND FAMILY LIBRARY, No. 26. BY THE 

 REV. J. BLUNT. 



Mr. Blunt's work on the Pentateuch, in which he ably applied the mode of 

 argument of the Horce Paulinos, to prove the authenticity of the books of Moses, 

 has already introduced him to the public in the character of an ingenious advo- 

 cate of the sacred cause in which he is enlisted. We remember listening, with 

 much interest, to the course of sermons he delivered on that subject, at the Uni- 

 versity Church, Cambridge, and came to the perusal of the present work with the 

 more avidity. Reform of any kind is always an interesting theme, and more 

 particularly so now, when the public mind is bent on the amelioration of long- 

 standing abuses. A popular and candid History of the Protestant Secession 

 from the Church of Rome (Bishop Burnet is too diffuse), is an almost essential 

 addition to the library of every English family ; and we hoped that Mr. Blunt 

 had furnished us with such a work ; of this, however, we are by no means cer- 

 tain. Meretricious and unseemly appendages began to disfigure the church of 

 Christ almost from its very foundation. Manicheans, Arians, Iconoclasts, and 

 Tyrophagists, all set to work on the pillars or friezes of the Christian temple, 

 when they came fresh from the hands of their divine architect. What then must 

 have been the accumulation of abuses in fifteen centuries of barbarism ? and 

 what a herculean task to remove them ! Such is the noble work which a His- 

 tory of the Reformation describes. But while recounting the abuses and follies 

 which the Protestant abolished, the candid historian should not forget to men- 



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