The British Critic (Volume 5) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. IV. Remarks and Explanations connected mth the " View of the System of Education at present pursued in the Schools and Universities of Scotland" By the Rev. M. Russel, A. M. 8vo. 100 pp. Bell and Bradfute, Edin. burgh; and Rivingtons, London. 1815. THE View of the System of Education," with which these Remarks and Explanations are connected, was published in 1813, and is a very interesting 'work, of which the reader will find a pretty copious account in our first volume. It was followed by a coarse philippic, inserted into the middle of a singular publication, by professor Dunbar of Edinburgh, called Prosodia Greeca, inc., of which we endeavoured to appreciate the merits in our third volume. That professor Dunbar, who appears to estimate literature, as shopkeepers and manufacturers estimate their wares, by the money price which they bring, and the demand for them in the market, should have been offended by .Mr. Riissel's " View," is not wonderful; for that gentleman certainly does not exhibit a favourable view of the " literary mill" of Edinburgh, though he writes with abundant respect of the skill of the " millers/' were the machinery which they employ better constructed. We are surprised, however, to find that a late " miller" of Glasgow, of whom better things might have been expected, had taken offence likewise at the View; for certainly ample justice is there done both to the " mill" of Glasgow, and to the skill and attention of those who regulate its motions. Such, however, has been the case. The late professor Richardson, as well as professor Dunbar, appears to have made a reply to the View, though the former writes with more urbanity and much greater art than the latter; and, in the pamphlet before us, M r. Russel, without entering into acrimonious controversy, has ...