Volume IN.
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part. Both, with their children around them theie


quiet labor and domestic happiness. compose fire.


side picture OF such perfect kind, as perhaps i.


no where else equaled i, is sketched, indeed.


from common life, and is strong contrast TO re
exaggerated and extraordinary characters and inc,
dents which are the resource Of those authors who
Ike Bayes, make 1t their business TO elevate and
surprise; but The very simplicity OF this charming
book renders the pleasure il affords more perma-
nent. We read the picar If WnhefeM in youth
and IN age.-We return to il again and again arf
bless the memory OF an antLor who contfses 10
well to reconcile US to human nature. Whether Nc
choose the pathetic and distressing incidents Of The
hre, and the scenes at the jail The lighter and hug
mofous parts OF the story. we find the best and i
est sentiments enforced in the most beautiful Ian.
guage; and perhaps lew characters Of pnrer dignity
have been described than that Of The excellent "a.
tor, rising above sorrow and oppression, and labor
ing to convert the elons, into whose company lie
had been thurs by his yillanous creditor.--In tua
many works of this class, the critics must apolo.
gize Tor or censure particular passages in narrative
as unit to be perused by youth or innocence. But
the wreath OF Goldsmith is nnsullied he wrote to
exat virtue and expose vice; and he accomplished.
his task in manner which raises him TO the hishes
rank among British authors.


We close his volume with sigh that such an All.
thor should have written little from the stores of
his own genius, and that he should have been 50
removed from the sphere Of lieratuis
which he adorned.