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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From the specimens of these Pamphlets, given in the Review before us,
we are inclined to think them excessively amusing. Mr. Isaac Tompkins
busies himself with the House of Lords, and Mr. Peter Jenkins gives
the lash to the House of Commons. Mr. T's account of patrician taste
in literature and wit--of courts, courtiers, court-jesters,
buffoonery, &c. are not a little edifying. His book has created a
great sensation. In a note appended to the fourth edition, occur the
following significant remarks. "The Quarterly Review, the organ of the
Aristocratic Church, and of the Lay Aristocracy, has taken the
opportunity of printing the greater part of the work, under pretence
of giving a Review of it. Pretence it plainly is; for there is hardly
one remark added, and not one syllable of censure or objection! Can
any thing more plainly demonstrate that the cause of the Aristocracy
is hateful, even to the very writers who affect to support it? Can any
thing better prove its decline among all educated and sensible men?
Mr. Canning's abhorrence of it is well known, and so is the hatred
with which he was repaid. But in our time, the advocate of
establishments can think of nothing better than giving a very wide
circulation to Mr. J. Tompkins' observations. These Quarterly
Reviewers would not for the world, that these observations were not
generally known." Peter Jenkins concludes his pamphlet with some
remarks on the new liberal government. Winterbottom's letter treats
chiefly of the evils resulting from the accumulation of wealth in a
few hands. "The whole family of Tompkins &c. is good"--says the
Reviewer--"and the public, will be glad to see more of their kin and
kind."
Article X. "The History of Ireland. By Thomas Moore, Esq. In three
volumes. Vol. i. London: Longman & Co. 1835."
This is an excellent and very laudatory notice, of a work which cannot
be too highly commended. The difficulties Mr. Moore has overcome, in
reducing to order a chaotic discordance of materials, with a view to
this History, will, perhaps, never be fully appreciated. It cannot
indeed be asserted that every portion of his subject has been hitherto
uninvestigated, or, that all the questions he has discussed have been
satisfactorily settled; but that, under existing circumstances, such a
book should have been written _at all_, is a matter for
admiration--and that it has been so rationally, so lucidly, and so
critically written, is a fact which cannot fail to elevate its author
immeasurably in the estimation of his friends. The future volumes of
_The History of Ireland_, will be looked for with intense interest. In
them we may expect to find the records of a dark and troubled period.
Moore will speak fearlessly, or we are much mistaken.
Article XI. "A Bill for granting Relief in relation to the Celebration
of Marriages, to certain persons dissenting from the Church of England
and Ireland, 1835."
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