A. C. PAGE. Absence ....... ........ 431 | Cecilia Alford, being No. 8, se. Adamus Exul, the, of Grotius ; cond series of the Remem or, the Prototype of Paradise brances of a Monthly Nurse. . 513 Lost, translated from the Latin Census of Foreign Literature by Francis Barham, Esq. 365, 535 Charles Fourier and Socialism Adelphi Theatre .. ......... 607 in France, 64 ; Ferdinand FreiAmerica, a Response from .... 344 ligrath, 407; Modern LiteraAmerican Ramblers .......... 693 ture of France........ 564, 671 Annuals, the ................ 600 Chronicle of the Law Officers of Apster John, LL.D. his Lines on England, by C. J. Smyth, A.B. 116 Glengariffe................ ib. Cicero's Opinion of the Ballot.. 134 Antipopopriestian, by J. Rogers 711 Cid, Romancero of the ........ 137 Arabian Nights' Entertainments 602 Chartist Epic, the ........... 218 Association, National, for the Cigar Box, Our.............. 386 Encouragement of Literature . 628 Coalitionary Journals, by the Autobiography of Thos. Platter 601 | Syncretist ................ 170 Cock-Crow, by Dr. Willis .... 646 B. Coleridge, Samuel T., Literary Ballot, Cicero's Opinion of the. 134 Remains of, collected and Ballot, the, the Chartists, and edited by Henry N. Coleridge, Government Plan of Education 119 A.M. ................100, 218 Beauty, the Pilgrim of, by Saml. Condition of the People ...... 719 Mullen ................. 229 | Cook, Eliza, her Poems ...... 607 Bernays, Leopold J., his transla Cookery made Easy, by a Lady 359 tion of Goethe's Faust, second Correspondence — The Chartist part.......... 74, 182, 326, 447 | Epic, and Coleridge's PhilosoBiography - Life of Selina, phy, a Letter to the Editor, Countess of Huntingdon, 357; 218; Editor's Reply........ 220 of Mrs. Siddons, by Thomas Cory, Isaac Preston, his PractiCampbell, 357 ; of Charles cal Treatise on Accounts .... 116 Fourier, 432; of Sir Hum Costanza of Mistra, a Tale .... 228 phrey Davy................ 667 Covent Garden Theatre, 106, British and Foreign Review.... 359 607, 718 Brougham, Lord, and Education 503 Crypt, Our Monthly .,108, 474, 700 PAGE. PAGE. Cryptic Dialogues ............ 221 France and England ; an Ode, by Cumming, W.F., his Notes of a John A. Heraud .......... 578 Wanderer ................ 117 | France, Modern Literature of, D. 564, 671 Death-rattle of Party ........ 361 | Friendship's Offering ........ 600 Discovery of America by the G. Northmen in the Tenth Cen Germany, the Spirit of, her Histury ................ 715 tory, &c., by Dr. Bisset HawDodd's Church History of Eng kins, 117; New School of land...... ...........484, 714 Philosophy in ............. 472 Duelling and Christian Principle 583 Goethe's Faust, 2nd part, transDrama, State of the .......... 609 lated by Leopold J. Bernays, Dramatie Productions, recent.. 621 74, 182, 326, 447 Going the whole Hog, a Scene in Eccaleobion, the ............ 118 a Backwoods' Court-room ... 264 Eccentric Club, Selections from Glengariffe, Lines on, by Dr. the Records of the, by Nic Anster ........ ......... 600 Sober ................... 151 | Grandier; or, the Victim of Education .... 120 Richelieu, by C. Dent ...... 398 Egypt, the history of, under the Green Room, 106, 229, 359, 488, 718 Ptolemies, by Samuel Sharpe 116 Grotius, the Character of, by Elegy, Gray's, illustrated ...... 229 Francis Barham, Esq. ...... 314 Encyclopædia Britannica ...... 114 the Adamus Exul of, Encyclopædia, the Popular ... 115 translated by Francis Barham, English Opera House .......... Esq. ................ 365, 535 Ernest, the Chartist Epic...... 1 Guizot, and the MisrepresentaExile, the, from the French of tions of his Policy in BlackL'Abbé de la Mennais ...... 93 wood and other periodicals, F. by the Syncretist .......... 283 Fables, Library edition of...... 114 Gulliver's Travels, illustrated by Family Sanctuary............ 115 | Grandville ................ 607 Faust of Goethe, Part I, transla H. ted by the Hon. Robt. Talbot 486 | Hannibal in Bithynia; a Dramatic Faust of Goethe, part 2, transla Poem, by Henry Gally Knight, ted by Leopold J. Bernays, 74, Esq., M.P. ............... 487 182, 326, 447 | Haymarket Theatre, 229, 361, Ferdinand Freiligrath ........ 407 488, 718 Festus ; a Poem, reviewed .... Hemans, Mrs., her Works, with a Finden's Tableaux ... ....... Memoir of her Life, by her Forget Me Not .............. 600 Sister................ 113, 489 Fra Cipolla, by Sir Jno. Hanmer, Heraud, John A., his Reply to Bart. ....... ......... 112 Professor Wilson ......... 237 247 PAGE. PAGE. ..... 717 N. Heraud, his Providence Divine | Napoleon, the History of, by R. (Ghazel) ................. 245 H. Horne .......... ....... 114 - Stanzas, by,........ 364 | Newfoundland, Poems written in 716 -- France and England, Nonsense, a Praise of, by Coran Ode, by................ 578 I nelius Webbe.............. 276 North, Christopher, his Review Jack Sheppard ...... of John Wilson's Poetry .... 121 Immortality 0. O'Connell Answered .......... 713 Oriental Annual, the ......... 600 Knowles, James Sheridan, his “Love,” a Play ..... Ouseley, Thos. John, his Vision ....... 616 of Death's Destruction ...... 229 L. Outlines of Pathological SemeiLancashire Witches .......... ology, by D. Spillan ........ 486 Leigh, Lord, his Poems ...... P. Library Gleanings. .......... Penny Postage, the ............ 713 Life of Sir Humphry Davy .... 687 Pepoli, Professor Caclo, his ReLiterature, a few Lines on, by trospect of Spanish Literature 137 Hannah D. Burdon ........ 683 Physic and Physicians ........ 474 Love and Charity, No. IV., select Plain Abstracts for Popular Use ed from the Records of the of all the Acts of Parliament, Eccentric Club ............ 151 by John H. Brady......... 713 Lovers, the, an Every-day Life Pleasures of Memory, and other Sketch .................. 94 Poems, by Samuel Rogers.... 607 M. Progress of Insurrection ...... 232 Macready's Henry V. ........ 106 Q. Maid of Otaheite, from the Odes Quakerism and Quakers....... 417 of Victor Hugo............ 216 Maniac, the, by H. L. Mansel, R. Esq. ..................... 167 | Rambles in the Isle of Man.... 462 Manuel for the College of Sur Reade's Catiline ............. 628 geons in London .......... 601 Remembrances of a Monthly Martin, R. M., on the Colonies 117 Nurse, second seriesMemory, to the Sorcerer ...... 275 No. VI. Rebecca Levison .... 38 Modern Pythonism, by the Mo VII. My God-child Mary 295 dern Cryptologist .......... 108 VIII. Cecilia Alford .... 518 Mr. and Mrs. Littledale, being IX. Mr. and Mrs. LittleIX, and last of 2nd series dale............ 648 of the Remembrances of a Reminisences of the People.... 673 Monthly Nurse ............ 648 Retrospect of Spanish Literature, My God-child Mary, being No. 1 by Professor Caclo Pepoli VII. ibid ...... ........ 295 The Romancero of the Cid PAGE. PAGE. and Sketches of Spanish Lit Supernaturalist, the....... 200, 587 erature.................. 137 Surrey Theatre ..........231, 361 Review-Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, col T. lected and edited by Henry Theology ....... .......... 353 N. Coleridge, A.M., vol. 4.... 100 Tournament, the ............ 675 Review of New Books ........ 228 W. Ward's Library of Standard DiSalomon, Dr. G., his Twelve Ser vinity .................... 114 mons .... Webbe, Cornelius, his Praise of Sardinia, Adventures in........ 209 Nonsense ................ 276 Shakspere Illustrated ......... 114 Wellington, Life of, by Major Shelley's Poetical Works, edited Basil Jackson and Captain C. by Mrs. Shelley ..... ...... 112 Rochefort Scott............ 114 Sketches of Spanish Literature 137 | Western India in 1838........ 716 Stanzas ... ....... ....... 364 Wilmott, Robt. Aris, his Letters State of the Drama .......... 609 of Eminent Persons ......... 117 Stevens's Gertrude and Beatrice 621 | Wilson, John, his Poetry ReStrand Theatre .............. 488 viewed by Christopher North 121 Sunyassee, the, an Eastern Tale, -- Letter of Editor to ....... 237 and other Poems, by James Winter's Wreath ............. 601 Hutchinson, Esq., &c. &c.... 113 | Wizard of Windshaw ...... 118 THE CHARTIST EPIC.* We have resolved on reviewing this poem at length, as the most fitting service we can render to the religious and political necessities of the present times. Advocating the most extreme principles, the author of this work is a poet of the highest rank, and of the deepest piety. What Shelley did in the republican style of versewriting, was nullified by his professed (though misnamed) Atheism. He condemned himself, and destroyed the influence of his production by the title that he assumed ; but the author of the poem before us is thoroughly Miltonic in sentiment and opinion, both political and religious. Like Milton, he errs, in expecting that mere naked principle can be carried out in the social state, and that it is possible, without ultimate damage, for a society to revert to the first elements of its constitution. From such decomposition, not life, but death will ensue. And even if we grant, that in societies, as in individuals, the soul survives the dissolution of the body; we contend that it will not reanimate the same body. It will either exist as a separate spirit, or, if it should indeed be the psychological law that souls transmigrate, it will enliven another people in another land, and not the people and the land that it has once left. Both socially and individually, it is a truth, never enough however asserted, that organisation is the result of life-that the constitution of society, as we have it, is the result of a specific life; that if once dissolved, there is no re-constitution of it, as life will not supervene on organisation as a result, but precedes and pervades it in every part as a cause. Ages are required for the growth and developement of an organised social body; nor has any people at any time the power of producing a new one in a day, a week, a month, or a year, simply by an effort of will, and the promulgation of a decree. Legislative assemblies themselves, whether ordinary or extraordinary, whether old Parliament, or new National Convention, are but parts of the body, not its soul, much less its author. The writer before us, would of course be undeserving of our consideration, were it not evident, that, like Milton, he is both a poet and divine, as well as a republican; and that in his latter character, * Ernest, or Political Regeneration, in Twelve Books; London: printed for the Author, by R. Gadsden, Upper St. Martin's Lane, 1839. (unpublished.] N. S. VOL. II. |