Review of a Carlylean pamphlet on morality and literature
The piece praises a controversial volume for its plain speaking on morality and social folly. It surveys extracts on marriage, immorality, and public amusements, contrasts refined literary aims with popular sentimentalism, and notes the author’s strong Christian-egalitarian impulse despite incomplete doctrinal alignment.
Thornley Smit works and a beggar's life described
A review highlights South Africa delineated by Thornley Smit as a vivid volume on tribes and missions, praising its natural history, personal adventures, and restrained missionary tone. It also uncovers The Life of a Vagrant by John Waddington, a beggar’s memoir edited in Southwark, lauded for candor and moral insight, with Hall’s motto on the beggar’s inner life.
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Newas
Mille
Madame Mille
Madame Cinq-cenis
Madame M
Berlin
Madame C.c
Gazette
Demoiselles
Cervantes
Andrew Marvel
Kirke White
Isaiah
Burns
Mahomet
South Africa
Thornley Smit
London
John Mason
Wesleyan Methodist
Cape Town
Port Natal
Chas. Gilpin
John Waddington
Southwark
London Bridge
Robert Hall
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J. Stores Smith
John Chapman
Hamlet
Atheneums
Pickwick
Rabelais
Richter
Dickens
England