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
Mrs. Loudon's Economy has excited great attention in England, and her
work is highly lauded in the present instance. As an able and
chivalrous champion of the cause of the people, she deserves all the
encomiums which she has received, and we are not in any degree
disposed to pick a quarrel with her Ethics, which, to say the truth,
are as little to the purpose as her political, or if she pleases, her
philanthropic Economy, is most effectually to the point. We have not
seen her entire publication, but merely judge of it from the copious
extracts in the article before us. Her answer to the objections to the
ballot is forcible, and coming as it does from a lady, its value is
quadrupled in our eyes. The Notice of her book concludes as follows.
"It is plain that Mrs. Loudon is a splendid woman, and has, at one
effort, taken her place in line, among the political economists upon
the people's side. She is fortunate too in having fallen upon times
when 'the spread of education is, in fact, rendering the _peaceable_
continuance of abuses impossible.'"
Article II is "Venetian History. Family Library, No. XX--London,
Murray, 1833." A compendious History of Venice, and apparently forced
into the service of the Review "will I, nill I," without any object
farther than the emptying of some writer's portfolio, or common-place
book. It is nevertheless an invaluable paper.
Article III is "Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, his Lineage,
Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms. By
Mark Napier, Esq. Blackwood, Edinburgh; Cadell, London, 1834. 4to. pp.
534."
This is a Review of exceeding interest, and evidently from a mind
thoroughly imbued with a love of science. It enters largely into the
subject matter of the book reviewed, and defends Napier from the often
repeated accusation of having derived his principle from the works of
Archimedes, Ditmarsus, and Byrgius. A short account of the
philosopher's treatises on Arithmetic and Algebra, as they appear at
the end of the Memoirs, is given in the conclusion of the Notice. We
perceive that Mr. Napier has here taken occasion to observe that
Horsley, Hutton, Leslie, and Playfair, are mistaken in supposing
Albert Girard the first who made use of the expressions _majores
nihilo_ and _minores nihilo_ in relation to positive and negative
quantities.
Article IV is "An Essay on Musical Intervals, Harmonics, and the
Temperament of the Musical Scale, &c. By W. S. B. Woolhouse, Head
Assistant of the Nautical Almanac Establishment."
This is a short article in which the book under review is condemned
for inaccuracy and misrepresentation. The Essay itself is another
instance of the interest now taken in the mathematics of music.
Article V is "A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Artists: comprising
Painters, Sculptors, Engravers and Architects, from the earliest ages
to the present time. By John Gould--Second Edition, 2 vols. 12mo.
Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1835."
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