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Art . II .- ^ 7 % 6 ? £ w . 7 % «? Winter ' s Wreath , The Amulet . The Forget Me Not . ' The hiterary Souvenir . Friendship' s Offering . There they are , the pretty things . Criticise them ? We might as well think of criticising the colours of a bed of
tulips in full bloom ; or the fantastic figures made by the combinations of a kaleidoscope ; or the imagery of a rich painted Gothic window , through which the rays of a western sun are streaming ; or whatever else is most diversified , gay , and gorgeous . A critique on them should only be written in a lady ' s boudoir ; by her own taper and jewelled
fingers ; with finest crow-quill , the gilt and silver tassels hanging from its top , and quivering at every movement of its jetty plumage ; in a delicate Italian hand ; and on such embossed and perfumed paper as has never , but once , been subjected to the soil of printers' fingers . No , they were never meant nor made for criticism ! Enjoy them , or let them alone 1
In fact , it is so impossible to refrain from looking at them , and so equally impossible to write solemnly and austerely about them ; they are so completely out of our critical province , the intoxicating productions of an extra-review region , that we should perhaps have adopted the above alternative , both sides of it , only dividing the two between our
public and ' ouf private capacity ; and been well content in' the one to enjoy them , and in the other ^ to let them alone , had it not been for the circumstance ' whicu we arfe about to mention . Many of oW friends and readers intend to purchase one of these Annuals , for their ovVrt families probably , and perhaps a second for a present , and they feel embarrassed about the selection . It woulii bu a great comfort to them , we are assured , to have our judgment in the matter for Ijhejir guidance ; and it is most convenient to give this iti the Monthly Repository . To make the result as satisfactory as
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« $ 35 ^ B ^^^^ m a decision t fraraea nnbh . mir own rAex £ - that' ^ ay" ^ bJy ' M ' m * mB * $ E'lffi ? W ^ f , fyWMwMvm he wishes to please fry his pre ^ e m ^^ e shall point out , as well as , we cari ^ ihe
publication by which that . taste , will' be most highly or fully gratified . We regret that the later date of their aiipearan ; ce , and the necessity for an early preparation of our present number , obliges us , to exclude the Keepsake , the Anniversary , and the Bijou , from our comparative estimate . They will not fail of notice in
our next . The first question then is , do you choose by the pictures or the letter-press ? By the former . Very well . Now we must come to sub-divisions , of which we shall take , as the first , a taste for
simple landscape , either without figures , or in which they are altogether subor * dinate to the scene . There are two very good engravings of this class , the View on the Thames near Windsor , ( by Miller , from a painting by Havell , ) in the Winter ' s Wreath : and the View on tfw
Ganges , ( by Finden , from Daniell , ) in the Forget Me Not . The latter has the superiority in execution ; but notwithstanding this , and some advantages in the scene itself , such as the river ' s more picturesque banks , those cupola'd and minaretted buildings among the
trees , and that deeper shade thrown so beautifully upon the water , we turn with pleasure , as many have done before us , from the Ganges to seek the Thames , as
it is there , so gracefully curving , and gently flowing , and softly shiuing , in that mild light which seems matfe on purposed to be reflected in its waiters , and which indeed was made ( by the artist ) for that very purpose : and very well
made too . The next degree , in an ascentfmg scale , we take to be romantic landscape , in which Fiiendshin ^ Qft " ering ip marvellously rich , having tl > e toye ^ f Muscat , which lobks very like pumbai'ton . Caa ^ e oi ; the Clyde ; Campbell Castle , aHj g ^ laiid sccne from whlcji fhe punter aq ^ l hii * doirs mfcfit well have been
soaredand Glen Linden , which pr , ofessea to , ) b ^ in T ^ mtilale , but \ irh |( : . V wyy tie * - ' fa tfeMVd ^ teMveJ irotesqixc , um . mr , ima ' prpvitiW ¦ of ;^ MD-i » lft ; < or , . > off ; v ^ h ertr ;' s ^^ e m ' the' him of Jolii ^ aftin , piihite ^^ id l ^ rave r , ^ re fJfe ^ ^ ucfi mount ^ iii ^ , a ^ d glen ' s , an ^ l overn ^ aii 4 pvecniices , a \ Vd abysses , J \ i ^ d hgfits ,. ana
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/45/
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