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Robinson Crusoe , but all his besfc fictions , the Journal of the Plague , Colonel Jack , Roxana , Moll Flanders , Captain Carleton , the Memoirs of a Cavalier , together with sundry topographical , historical , and didactic treatises , belong to this interval . It was the portion of his life which connects him with posterity
The previous part had been absorbed m the interests , aims , and conflicts of his contemporaries . He died on the 24 th of April , 1731 , being about seventy years of age , and was buried in BunMll Fields . Notwithstanding the immediate success of many of his publications , his last days were , like too much of his whole life , embittered by the embarrassment of his
circumstances . Such is the meagre and painful record of a man whose name is now venerated by so large a portion of the civilized world as that of the benefactor of their boyhood . Aud not only did his pen yield him a very precarious subsistence during the many years in which it was
his only , or his chief means of support , but , " singular as it may have appeared in after times , the manuscript of Robinson Crusoe passed through the whole circle of the trade before it could find a purchaser . " The purchaser ' * is said to have cleared a thousand pounds The extent of De Foe's remuneration is not known ; but it was probably far from being large . " Yet the work immediately made its way with the public , aud took at once the station which it still holds , and must while the world shall endure .
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Art . X . — Dr . Gardner ' s Cabinet Cyclopaedia . Vol . I . Scotland . By Sir W . Scott . 6 * .
The different notices and advertisements which have been circulated have probably acquainted most of our readers with the plan of the Cabinet Cycfopceditt . There is one peculiarity in that plan which cannot fail to recommend the work . So much of it as relates to any particular subject or class of subjects will be complete in itself . Purchasers for whom the whole would be too
voluminous , or expensive , or to whom much of it would be useless or uninteresting-, may each restrict himself to the portion , historical , scientific , biographical , or whatever it may be , which best accords with his means or his taste , and yet not disfigure his shelves by an imperfect publication . And this arrangement has the further advantage , that whenever any volume or set of
volumes becomes obsolete ( and how much of Science , and of Political Geography , to look no further , ha"ve many of us lived to see superseded !) that part can be renewed without the necessity for a new edition of the whole , or in any way diminishing the value of the rest . These facilities , combined with unusual cheapness , and a long list of able contributors , may be expected to render the Cabinet Cyclopaedia highly popular .
The first volume augurs well for the work in every respect . Sir Walter Scott has most felicitously accomplished the design of the Editor , and gained fresh reputation even for his versatile and successful pen . All the common faults of Historical Abridgments , so common that they were deemed inherent in that species of composition , are avoided , and we are presented with a Summary of Scottish record alike valuable as a first book .
or a last ; and which will afford equal delight to the veterau student and the ignorant youth . The second volume will complete the History of Scotland , which is to be followed by that of England , by Sir James Mackintosh ; aud of Ireland , by Thomas Moore .
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Art . XI . —Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America . By Hugh Murray , Esq ., F . R . 8 . E- 2 vols . Longman . The Journals of Voyages and Travels which are published so continually seem to us like so many Day Books , or Kunnipg Accounts , which it would be a good
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60 Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous .
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Art . IX . — The Private Memoirs of the Court of Louis XVIII . By a Lady . 2 Vols . 8 vo . Colburn and Bentley . 1830 . The Private Memoirs of the Court of Louis Xflll . are a sweeping of Anecdotes mixed up with fictions which are
intended to be , and sometimes are , characteristic of the parties introduced . The pretensions of the book remind one of the cargoes of Spitaifieids' manufacture which used to be sent to a port , perhaps even shipped , in order to reappear , as French silk , prohibited and smuggled . Very good silk it might be , nevertheless y and we have here many sketchy and spirited descriptions , though the marks of imauthenticity are sufficiently glaring . There is therefore some amusement in
this production , though , as a whole , it is neither truth , nor fiction , nor a clever and plausible mixture of both .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/60/
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