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    every travelled path , every wave of ocean—with the story of human affections . Warm , eager life—the life of breathing generations , is folded in its mighty bosom , and sleeps there , but is not dead ! Oh world ! world ! what hast thou been through the long ages that have gone before us ? Ay , what hast thou been ? In this vast domain of old time before me , every human heart has been a world of living affections . Every

    soul that has lived has taken the experience of life ; new and fresh , singly and alone , as if no other had ever felt it . Not in palaces only , but in the cottage , has the whole mighty problem of this wonderful humanity been wrought out . Sighings , and tears , and rejoicings , birth-day gladness ,

    and bridal joy , and clouding griefs , and death , have been in every dwelling . Gay throngs of youth have entered in , and funereal trains have come forth at every door . Through millions of hearts on these very shores , has swept the whole mighty procession of human passions . How has it already lengthened out almost to eternity , the brief expanse of time !"—Vol . i , p . 18—21 .

    The second class of observations ( of the three into which we distributed the work ) contains much that is very amusing ' . For some we were fully prepared , but there were other of the author ' s surprises that surprised us , and turned his notice of familiar English matters into a very novel but very indisputable view of American affairs . We shall indicate some of either sort , indiscriminately , as they occur .

    His first surprise is with the bright green of the springherbage on the banks of the Mersey , making us see the dark green grass of his native plains ; which is afterwards more particularly marked when he admires the variety of tints and shades with which our meadows are diversified . Moreover we find , when he gets into Derbyshire that a cliff covered with ivy is a rare sight to American eyes .

    " But it is to be remembered that cliffs and precipices in this country are very different things from what they are with us . The ? moisture of the climate causes ivy , laurel , and every shrub and tree , to grow up their sides and to spring out from their very summits . The cliffs here , too , are of every shape ; some of them rising- perpendicularly like battlements or towers , bare in some places , covered with ivv in others , and waving out from

    their tops , green banners of luxuriant foliage ; while between and through them you see the soft , deep , blue sky—softer , deeper , bluer , than it appears elsewhere ; and would that it ofteucr had this aspect in this country of clouds , and rain , and smoke—for in this respect it is not to be compared with ours . 1 suppose this is the reason why Englishmen rave go much about the Italian sky . "—Vol . i , p . 126 , 127 . With the civility of servants lie was of course impressed ; and though he had to pay for it , well satisfied with the bargain . " For my part , " he says , " I am as willing to pay for civility as for my dinner . One would like to buy not only his dinner but some reasonable chance of digesting it ; and that is hard to do when one has to digest slovenliness , negligence , and ill-manners

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    The Old World and the IVetfr . 599

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/11/