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    Embellished Works Of The Season. The Boo...

    wtmtitte f ^ m ^ mm & of technical acquaintance with subject ¦ wiB } i 0 & m ^ m to j & dg $ * His subject is one of absorbing interest , $ && Jie explains its phenomena in a clear and familiar

    manner » Xsti 0 r & of a Representative , to his Constituents , during the Session of 1837 . Second Series . E . Wilson . 8 vo . pp . 107 . Colonel Thompson has a graver

    senseof the duty owed by a representative to his constituents titan some of the dandy reliques of boroughmongery , and he does n ^ t think it beneath him to render an account of his conduct to

    those whose votes placed him in Parliament . In . doing so , he touches , with much spirit and judgment , upon the conduct of others ; and his Letters involve a critical journal of the proceedings in the House of Commons , valuable as a refresher to the

    memory of the politician , and as a spur to the inftent of the lagging Reformer , Christian TJieology . By John Calviti . Selected and

    syptematically arranged , with a Life , of Abe Author , by Samuel Dunn . London : Tegg and Son , 1837 . John Johnstone . pp . 412 .

    We have found nothing in the volume before us to modify the opinion we expressed in a former number respecting Calvin , in whom singular activity appears

    to have been the quality most above the ordinary . A very bilious perception of Christianity made him meet corruption with assumption , intolerance with intolerance . 4- gtoojny egotist ,

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    witfe m misgivings as to M » mm infallibility , Calvin 4 ^> u ^ to ? # been a pope j but withoikl the seniiment r or the * redeeming igyaises of theCathoHefeitii * According to Mr Dunn > his persecution of Servetus was implacable ^ nd persevering * The specimens of

    his theology in the volume are equally debasing or unintelli gible , from want , it should seem ? of a definite meaning in the writer ' s mind . The life is ably and impartially written \ the only wonder is how Mr Dunn can reconcile his data with his

    conclusions in favour of Calvin's character . Letters to Brother John 9 on Life , Health , Disease * By Edward Johnson , Surgeon Saunders and Otley . 1837 . 8 vo . pp . 1320 .

    We have read Mr Johnson ' s Letters with interest and advantage , and can recommend them to all ; to the healthy , that they may know what it is they should preserve ; to the sickly , that they may know what it is they should reform . We have however considerable fault to

    find with the manner in which the author has executed his task ; it shows an indolence unbecoming the subject , or the apparent faculties of the writer . Mr Johnson has adopted the form of Letters * , because , he says , he thought that it would

    afford him the best opportunity of employing a plain and conversational style , which is more necessary for readers who have no acquaintance whatever with the subject treated . Perhaps he was not himself aware of the great shar ^ which a Intent

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/62/