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and earnest thinking everywhere \ " He occasionally reminds us of the A wild low music accompanies these reflective depth of Wordsworth; and artless strains; an indistinct, uncertain I sometimes evinces a delicate fancy and melody — such a tune as an untaught j richness of epithet worthyof Tennyson." musical nature might choose to itself in solitary places There are some times stanzas which are suggestive, not only in a political relation, but in one far higher— as touching those social re- — Manchester Examiner.
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The Complete Works of the Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D.
8vo. 7s. Gd. cloth.
The Works of Joseph Stevens Buck minster: With Memoirs of his Life. 2 vols. PostSvo. £1. cloth.
The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White.
Written by Himself. With Portions of his Correspondence. Edited by JOHN HAMILTON THOM. 3 vols. post 8vo. j£l 4s. cloth.
" This is a book which rivets the at tention, and makes the heart bleed. It has, indeed, with regard to himself, in its substance, though not in its ar rangement, an almost dramatic cha racter; so clearly and strongly is the living, thinking, active man projected from the face of the records which he has left.
" His spirit was a battle-field, upon which, with fluctuating fortune and sin gular intensity, the powers of belief and scepticism waged, from first to last, their unceasing war; and within the com pass of his experience are presented to our view most of the great moral and spiritual problems that attacli to the condition of our race."— Quarterly Rev.
" This book will improve his (Blanco White's) reputation. There is much in the peculiar construction of his mind, in its close union of the moral with the intellectual faculties, and in its restless desire for truth, which may remind the reader of Doctor Arnold."— Examiner.
" There is a depth and force in this book which tells."— Christian Remem brancer.