The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany (Volume 58)

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. 1855. Excerpt: ... to so many in their distresses, and to others, so many, a sympathizing friend in their seasons of rejoicing; and that he so endowed him with rare and excellent gifts as to render him an ornament of society, an eminent teacher and guide, a workman that needed not to be ashamed. We bid him farewell with sorrow, for he was our friend and fellow-laborer, and we loved him well! But memory unites with hope to comfort our hearts, and the declaration of the Saviour, Because I live, ye shall live also, which was his final stay, is our assurance that we shall soon see him again. j. w. T. NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. A Third Gallery of Portraits. By George Gilfillan. New York. 1855. Coleridge, pp. 196-200. Blacktcood' s Magazine for February, 1855. Revelations of a Showman. Grandiloquous Gilfillan tells us that he is half tempted to unite with Mr. De Quincey in calling Mr. Coleridge the largest and most spacious intellect that has hitherto existed among men. All men, of course, he adds for himself, compared with God, are fragments. Shakespeare himself was, and so was Coleridge. But of all men of his time, Coleridge approached nearest to our conception of a whole, &c. We could not have expected anything much short of this profane trash from George Gilfillan; and we should hardly be moved to say a word about it, if it were not that there are persons, here as well as in Great Britain, ready to assent to the extraordinary opinion which he so irreverently expresses; and if it were not also that one of his brother Scots, in Blackwood's Magazine, has been at the very same moment lavishing all the terms that have any relation to the pillory or the gibbet upon Barnurn and his autobiography. We do not contend that these terms are undeserved. But the contrast is s...