The London Review Volume 14 (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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...Tatler' with two t's; for it is a fixed historic title, and cannot now be affected by the analogy of tittle-tattle. In matters of fact the author is careful and precise; but he twice mis-states the place of George Whitefield's birth, which occurred, not in the city of Bristol, but in the city of Gloucester. Three Months' Best at Pau, in the Winter and Spring of 1859. y John Altrayd Wittitterly. Bell and Daldy. I860.--We do not hesitate to say that the author of this clever book is no gentleman. Indeed, we are at a loss to understand why the name of Mr. Wittitterly should appear upon the title-page, when another authorship is indicated by the motto, which runs thus: ' Mrs. Wittitterly forms and expresses an immense variety of opinions on an immense variety of subjects.' The contents of this volume are in the form of a diary, and, in spite of some contrivance to the contrary, betray a delicate and feminine touch--as though the glove of undressed kid had slipped, from the hand of Jacob. A residence at Pau is marked by very little incident; but our traveller has a shrewd faculty of observation, and glances quietly upon ' an immense variety of subjects.' It gives no adequate notionof this variety to mention church-rates, prayer-meetings, and Thomas a Becket; for a rather liberal ecclesiasticism would include them all. There are, also, some capital remarks on old age, red beards, and self-denial. A vein of pleasant satire runs through all the volume, which is evidently the work of an original and independent mind, as well as of a person of sound religious principle. LONDON: --PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICHOLS, B. LONDON WILL. THE LONDON REVIEW. JULY, 1860. Art. I.--On the Origin of Species. By Charlbs Darwin. That high authority, Augustine Caxton, has...