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    Or a Journal of Reflections and Observations made on a Tour in Europe . By the Rev . Orville Dewey , late of New Bedford , U . S . 2 vols .

    The new world is a grand world , both materially and morally . In both senses , it has ample prospects . Every thing- is on a large scale , from physical nature to physical prescription . When an English lady becomes dyspeptic from dissipation , " Go to Bath , " says her medical adviser . When an American clergyman is nervous from professional exertion , " Go to Europe , " says his medical adviser . And the one direction is followed with as much alacrity and facility as the other . The former throws herself on the easy seat of a travelling carriage ; the latter lounges into the splendid saloon of a Liverpool packet ; and the thing * is done . The Continent is but the Cheltenham , and Great Britain the

    Margate , of Transatlantic invalids . They breathe the air , drink the waters , see the sights of the old world , and back they go as if , like the Oriental patient of old , they had only dipped their heads into a tub , and gained in a moment the experience of a life . This is very pleasant . We hope it does them good , and are glad to find it likely to do us good . They are quite right in keeping journals , and will often be quite right in publishing them . The Rev . Orville Dewey was , we believe , one of these invalided ministers so prescribed for , so doing , so journalizing , and so

    publishing . His very gentlemanly publication is a handsome return for the not very ladylike one of Mrs Trollope . England must be in debt to America , until Miss Martineau ' s anticipated work clears our national conscience , and squares the account . Mr Dewey ' s book may be assorted into three portions , which stand in the three degrees of comparison . First , his descriptions of towns and landscapes , men and manners , not only in Great Britain and Ireland , but in France , Switzerland , and Italy . This is good . Next , his implied delineations of America , which are

    conveyed sometimes by direct contrast , but often by unconscious remarks and expressions of surprise ; this is better . And thirdly , his admonitions to his own countrymen , founded on comparative observations of the old world and the new , and breathing the genuine language of an honest and vigorous mind . And this portion is the best . It is characterized by strong sense , warm

    feeling , and high principle . For the first , we must refer our readers to the volumes themselves , promising , however , that although we have characterized the descriptions as good , we by no means assign to them the highest degree of merit , and might make sundry exceptions to our praise . The author does not take us with him in his sentimental moods , and still less in those which he thinks poetical .

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    The Old World and the New . 597

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    THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/9/