The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 3, February, 1836

The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. II., No. 3, February, 1836

CRITICAL NOTICES PAUL ULRIC, or the Adventures of an Enthusiast: by Morris Mattson, Esq. MARTIN'S GAZETTEER: by Joseph Martin ROSE-HILL: by a Virginian CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL An Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Marshall: by Horace Binney A Discourse on the Life, &c. of John Marshall, L.L.D.: by Joseph Story, L.L.D. An Oration on the Life and Character of John Marshall: by Edgar Snowden THE CONFESSIONS OF EMILIA HARRINGTON: by Lambert A. Wilmer THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND by Lieutenant Slidell CONTI THE DISCARDED: with Other Tales and Fancies: by Henry F. Chorley NOBLE DEEDS OF WOMAN RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE TRIBUNES: by Edward Lytton Bulwer ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY, considered with reference to Natural Theology: by Peter Mark Roget, M.D. CAREY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Go to the Library of one of our Colleges; survey its five, or ten thousand volumes. You are astonished, that human thought or human industry could have produced such an accumulation of quarto upon folio, of duodecimo upon octavoof Science, Literatureof History, Fictionof Prose, and Poetry. But look into other collections northward of us, and in each, of several, you find more than forty thousand volumes! When you have wondered sufficiently at these, turn your 'mind's eye' to Europe; and behold, libraries containing each one hundred, or even one hundred and fifty thousand books! Look around you, then, and see how many hundreds every week is adding to the mass of tomes already in existence. Glance at the book-sellers' cataloguesat their notices in the gazetteat the monthly and quarterly "Lists of New Publications," in Magazines and Reviewsat the countless host of Reviews and Magazines themselves, and of newspapers, tracts, pamphlets, speeches, addresseseffusions of ten thousand various forms and meritscraving your attention and bewildering your choice! Go forth into society: in one circle, politicsin another, canalling, or railroad lorein a third, some point touching the Campaigns of Bonaparte, the Wars of the League, the American Revolution, or the Conquests of Tamerlanein a fourth, the beauties of Greek and Roman literaturein a fifth, some topic in Chemistry or Geologyin a sixth, Byron, Campbell, Moore and Wordsworthin a seventh, the fifty last novelsare discussed by their respective coteries, each, as if that subject alone threw all others into the shade. And if you are not so torpid as to be incapable of excitement by sympathy with others, and by themes inherently interesting, or so self-possessed as to curb and regulate discreetly, the curiosity and proneness to imitation which will on such occasions be kindled in any but a blockheadyou cannot, for your life, help wishing to be familiar with each theme. You go home; and plunge headlong into a dozen different studies. Your acquisitions are huddled chaotically into your knowledge-box, so that you have a full, distinct idea, of no one subject: you can never get hold of what you want, at the moment when you need it; but must rummage over an immense pile of trumpery, with a bare hope, after all, of finding the useful article you want. You are a shallow smatterer. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68141
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Release Date: May 21, 2022
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Publication Date: 1836
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