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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American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Article V. is an excellently well toned, and perfectly satisfactory
Review of the "Journal by Frances Anne Butler, 2 vols. 8vo. London,
1835." It defends this lady from the charge of intentionally
depreciating America; cites a long list of instances in which she has
spoken in terms of the greatest cordiality of our people,
individually, and as a nation; shows in what manner she has repeatedly
let slip opportunities of saying, and saying too with perfect justice,
things little likely to flatter our vanity; defends her from the
ridiculous accusation of vulgarity (there is positively not an iota of
vulgarity in the composition of Fanny Kemble) and very justly gives us
a rap over the knuckles for our overweening vanity, self-sufficiency,
and testiness of temper. The whole article is excellent, and the
conclusion is particularly to our mind. "There is no chance of her
return to a profession that she so cordially detested. Under these
circumstances the only compensation Mr. Butler can make to us he must
make. He is bound to see that she goes on with her faithful and
amusing journal, and that she finishes, at her leisure, some of the
sundry stories, plays, and novels, on which, it seems, she had already
set to work amid the interruptions of the stage."
The sixth article is a review of "The Works of George Dalgarno, of
Aberdeen. 4to. Reprinted at Edinburgh: 1834." This work is merely a
reprint of the old Treatises of Dalgarno, the publication not
extending beyond the sphere of the Maitland Club--a society instituted
at Glasgow in imitation of the Edinburgh Ballantyne Club. The first
treatise of Dalgarno is entitled "Ars Signorum, Vulgo Character
Universalis, et Lingua Philosophica. Londini 1661." The second is
"Didascalocophus, or the Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor: to which is added
a Discourse of the Nature and Number of Double Consonants: both which
Tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been
published upon either of the subjects. Printed at the Theater in
Oxford, 1680." The memory of Dalgarno had nearly perished when Dugald
Stewart called public attention to his writings, on account of his
having anticipated, on grounds purely speculative, and _a priori_,
what has now been proved _a posteriori_ by Horne Tooke and others,
viz: that all grammatical inflections are reducible to the noun alone.
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