1828.] 
that they cannot ‘ope their mouths but 
out there flies a trope? They remind us 
of Martinus Scriblerus, who, instead of or- 
dering his door to be shut in good English 
prose, used to transfuse his wishes into 
blank verse, and say, _ i 
The wooden guardian of our privacy 
Quick on its axle turn. 
We cannot afford space for extract, or we 
eould select many beautiful passages from 
the Duke of Mantna. The description of 
the growing sounds of a many-voicéd echo 
is adinirable : 
We laughed 
On that still night, until the eispering. woods 
Grew loud, and thousand voices started forth 
From bough and hoary stem, bursting, as if 
To riotous life! 
Some of the songs are also very elegant. 
Characteristics, in the manner of Roche- 
foucault’s Maxims, is a small volume which 
is said to be the production of a Mr. Haz- 
litt. The author, whoever he may be, 
has given us a number of good thouglits, 
such as might be the ‘* ground-work of se- 
parate essays ;” but the greater part are 
too long and too laboured to come proper- 
ly under the denomination of Maxims. 
“There is only one point,” says the au- 
thor, “in which I dare even allude to a 
comparison with Rochefoncault: I Aave no 
theory to maintain; and [have endeavoured 
to set down each thought as it occurred to 
me, without bias or prejudice of any sort.” 
Now, we apprehend that this theory of 
Rochiefoucault’s (the selfishness of Man), 
whether true or false, constitutes the very 
charm of his book. It is the leading 
strain that carries along the attention of 
the reader, the string which threads his 
pearls together; and we should have been 
better pleased had the writer avoided the 
want of connection in his aphorisms. Be- 
sides, aphorisms require as many thoughts 
as words, and in these Characteristics we 
have twice or thrice as many words as 
thoughts. ; 
The Letter to the Mistresses of Families 
on the Cruelty of employing Children in the 
Sweeping of Chimnies is a small pamphlet ; 
but is, notwithstanding, well worthy of at- 
tention and perusal, both on account of the 
subject and the earnestness with which it 
is written. The author not only shows, by 
irrefragable evidence, the cruelty of the 
practice; but demonstrates that its con- 
tinuance is owing solely to the apathy of 
the “ Mistresses of Families,” and that 
there are few cases in which the ma- 
chine would not be equally efficacious, 
The master chimney-sweep prefers the 
boy, because otherwise he must work him- 
self; but the lady of the house has only to 
issue her commands, and they must be 
obeyed. 
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