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      The Duties of Men . By Silvio Pellico . The sufferings of Silvio Pellico , and the spirit in which he endured them , have created an interest in his literary productions which will be in part gratified by this translation . We are indebted for it to the elegant pen of Mr . Thomas Roscoe . But our largest debt is for the memoir prefixed , and which will be read with feelings similar to those

      excited by the Ten Years' Imprisonment . ' Of the work itself , we cannot speak with unqualified approbation . It is an epitome of the morality of sentiment , always requiring to be tested by principle , and not always abiding the test . Section 15 , for instance , On the choice of a Profession / seem a to us to be a sad misguidance . There are other portion * to which al&o objections might betaken ; but the most rigorous criticism would leave much that is alike true , beautiful , and useful .

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      The Sea-Wolf . A Romance of * The Free Traders / This volume of the * Library of Romance * is , we understand , the work of a youthful author ; and it is one of good promise . The characters , scenery , and incidents are sketched with a free and bold hand . Much of the description is very graphic and beautiful , and the story is

      spiritstirring , though somewhat faulty in its construction , and much beyond the bounds of probability . The death-scene of Falconer , and that of Woodville , are both told powerfully . The writer should study correctness in his nautical phraseology . A capital song ( p . 87 ) is spoiled to all seamen by describing an impossibility in its first line ; and yet it is a capital song nevertheless .

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      Illustrations of Social Depravity . No . 2 . The Voluntary Churchman . By John Reid . This is one of a series of sixpenny tracts wjiicb , to judge by the specimen before us , are well worth circulating , and calculated to do good tt > the cause of religious liberty and national morality . It is sound in principle , clever and spirited in execution . It narrates the progress of opinion , in a Scotch village , on the subject of ecclesiastical

      establishments , from the origin of dissent , in consequence of a minister being put into the Kirk by patronage , in opposition to the general desire of the congregation , to the holding of a public meeting ot the inhabitants to petition for the total separation of Church and Stale . The narrative is an epitome of a change which ia now rapidly going on throughout Scotland and England , and may serve to give many persons » move distinct notion of that change .

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      HortB Phrenologies . By John Epps , M . D . Dr . Epps applies the doctrines of Gall , Spurzheirn , and Combe to the concerns of religion and morality , with the zeal of one who has at htart the promotion both of the physical and moral sciences , and , througn them , of the well-beinor of mankind . _ To us , the Phrenology appear *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/75/