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reference to the heads of the chapters, makes a few general remarks, quotes 

 French and German, Barbauld and Paulding, and concludes. His memory, 

 too, is a parodox ; he gives with great fidelity, in page 74, a passage of some 

 nine or ten lines from Horace, as the production of the author of Tremaine. 

 In his examination of an opinion that the wants of an established church in 

 America has produced want of religion, he draws a parallel between the mi- 

 nisters of that country and our own, which the latter would do well to read. 

 His comparison between the British and American females is also in favour 

 of the latter ; but he is se chary of his facts, and so prodigal of his opinions, 

 that we could not venture to come to a conclusion upon the point, without 

 some other statements besides those of Mr.Duhring. What he says, we do not 

 doubt, but he says so little that we must look elsewhere for more : his work, 

 nevertheless, is well worth reading. 



TALES FOR AN ENGLISH HOME. BY G. M. STERNE. BRISTOL : GEORGE 

 DAVEY. LONDON : LONGMAN & Co. 1833. 



OF the productions of a lady it is unpleasant to speak in any other Ian" 

 guage than that of praise, and we shall therefore say but little respect" 

 ing the Tales of an English Home. That they^were well intended, we 

 would fain believe, but though puerile enough, we doubt the fitness of 

 their perusal for juvenile readers. The style is commonplace and inflated; 

 and the moral is left, perhaps, to the imagination ; the authoress says in her 

 preface, in the words of her relation, Larwrence Sterne, that " she would go 

 fifty miles a-foot to kiss the hand of those whose generous hearts will give 

 up the reigns of their imagination into the author's hands ; be pleased, they 

 know not why, and care not wherefore/' We are unluckily more than fifty 

 miles from the lady, but were we not more than five, we fear that upon the 

 above conditions, we should never obtain the happiness she so temptingly 

 proffers. 



THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. 



THE life of St. Paul, as the present writer observes, cannot be expected to 

 furnish much original matter for an author ; but to put together that which 

 was before known, in an agreeable and instructive form, is a task which he 

 nj-ay perform, and, as in the present instance, deserves praise for effecting. 

 The celebrated deist, Anthony Collins, once said to the first Lord Harring- 

 ton, during a conversation respecting revealed religion, that he would believe 

 any thing St. Paul said, for " he was such a complete gentleman." If a 

 compassionating knowledge of the infirmities of his fellow-creatures a soul 

 patient to endure a tongue slow to wound and swift to heal, could give 

 grace and gentleness to the manners, St. Paul certainly was the most 

 polished man breathing. As a school, therefore, not only for that lore which 

 leads to a glorious immortality, but also of those precepts which, if fol- 

 lowed, will conduce to happness and estimation here, we strongly re- 

 commend the above volume to our readers, As a matter of mere history it 

 deserves a perusal, and no one who takes any interest in the " Acts of the 

 Apostles" should be without it. 



A LETTER ON SHAKSPEARE'S AUTHORSHIP OF THE Two NOBLE KINS- 

 MEN ; A DRAMA COMMONLY ASCRIBED TO JOHN FLETCHER. EDIN- 

 BURGH : ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, AND LONGMAN AND Co., LON- 

 DON. 



MUCH learning and some pedantry have been employed in the discussion of 

 the subject of the above book. Out of 1 10 large octavo pages, it will natu- 



