The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 1, December, 1835Various
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The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 1, December, 1835
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Revolution, would be the most fascinating book in the language. The
printer and editor of the work are severely censured, but the censure
is, in some respects, misapplied. Such errors as making the pension of
60,000 livres, which Lord Sunderland received from France, equivalent
to 2,500 pounds sterling only, when, at the time Sunderland was in
power, the livre was worth more than eighteen pence, are surely
attributable to no one but the author--although the editor may come in
for a small portion of the blame for not correcting an oversight so
palpable. On the other hand the misprinting the name of Thomas Burnet
repeatedly throughout the book, both in the text and Index, is a
blunder for which the editor is alone responsible. The name is
invariably spelt Bennet. Thomas Burnet, Master of the Charter House,
and author of the _Theoria Sacra_, is a personage of whom, or of whose
works, the gentleman who undertook to edit the Fragment of Sir James
Mackintosh has evidently never heard. The Memoir prefixed to the
History, and its Continuation to the settlement of the Crown, both by
the Editor of the Fragment, are unsparingly, but indeed most
righteously, condemned. The Memoir is childish and imbecile, and the
Continuation full of gross inaccuracies, and altogether unworthy of
being appended to any thing from the pen of Mackintosh.
Article II is a very clever Review of the "Acharnenses of
Aristophanes, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, adapted to the Use
of Schools and Universities. {48} By T. Mitchell, A.M. 8vo. London,
1835." Mr. Mitchell made his first appearance as a translator and
commentator in 1820, and his second in 1822, upon both which occasions
he was favorably noticed in the Edinburgh. High praise is bestowed in
the present instance upon the _Acharnenses_. The _Wasps_ will follow,
and thus it appears the chronological order of the Comedies will not
be preserved. The old fault is to be found with this Review, viz: It
is more of a dissertation on the subject matter of the book in
question than an analysis of its merits or defects. By far the greater
part of the Article is occupied in a discussion of the character of
the Athenians.
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