The Ariel Volume 1-2; A Literary Gazette (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...in distinctness, and somewhat encumbered with ineffective agents; but we are sure it is the work of a man full of sterling good sense--thinking and speaking not by the rules of art, but by the laws of nature--a close observer and an able painter, and lifted far above common prejudices, and casting from him the fetters of bigotry, religious and political."--Monthly Magazine. "Red Rover.--The American novelist is Sir Walter Scott's perfect equal in very many respects. For the most part they both of them act very wisely and warily; they work on their own grounds, and keep within the limits of their own experience. Sir Walter knowshis country, and hiscountry's history, and there he is quite unrivalled. Mr. Cooper in like manner knows America, and its short but eventful and unique history--he has been too a sailor--and confining himself, with the wisdom of a sound understanding, to American charaoter and naval scenes and subjects, he is, in his department, without a rival. Sir YValtcr has ventured, and in the opinion of numbers, talked learnedly of storms and battles; but it must be a grudging, or a timid, or a despicable spirit that refuses to admit Cooper's superiority. The details of a storm, a chase, and a wreck, in the Red Rover, are beyond all compari son, the most powerful in their effect, that ever thrilled through us, andare as little likely, as substantial facts, to fade from our memories. The winds and waves are at his command, and the storms which his magic pen so readily raises, howl and roar, with a truth and witchery perhaps too near reality--making the brain waver, and turn from the page for relief--and be sure of its security."--I/mdon Magazine. FOR THE ARIEL. THE COUNTESS OF LEICESTER. Aye, mourn, noble earl, (or the gem that was...