purity of his style, the aptness and beauty of his illustrations, must challenge commendation from the most critical and exacting. Then, too, impregnating the whole, is the moral and religious element-where too many other essayists have sadly failed. The education developed in these pages is not one that displays a mock morality and a false faith; but one in which the religion of the Bible is made to assume its true place as the foundation-stone. Every-where does the author recognize the importance of combining religious culture with general education, in order that the world may be saved from the curse of unsanctified knowledge. The author of these essays is said to be of the same family stock as James Thomson, the poet of the "Seasons." What Lord Littleton said of the poet, we believe may be said with equal propriety of the essayist that his writings contain "No line which, dying, he could wish to blot." D. W. CLARK. Cincinnati, May, 1856. |
