IX. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORTHMEN. 161 Antiquitates Americanæ, sive Scriptores Septen- trionales Rerum Ante-Columbianarum, in Americâ. Samling af de i Nordens Oldskrifter in deholdte efterretninger om de gamle Nordboers opdagelse- Resumo de Observações Geologicas feitas em uma Viagem a's Ilhas da Madeira, Porto Santo, e Açores, nos Annos de 1835 e 1836, pelo Conde VARGAS DE BEDEMAR, Camarista de El-Rei de Di- namarca, Director do Museo Real da Historia Na- tural, e Socio da Academia Real das Sciencias em Summary of Geological Observations made in a Voyage to the Islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and IV. LAST YEARS OF MARIA LOUISA Histoire de Napoléon, par M. DE NORVINS. Deux- VII. DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION Documentary History of the American Revolu- tion. Published in Conformity to an Act of Con- A Complete Hebrew and English Dictionary on a New and Improved Plan, containing all the Words in the Holy Bible, both Hebrew and Chaldee, with the Vowel Points, Prefixes, and Affixes, as they stand in the Original Text; together with their Derivation, Literal and Etymological Meaning, as it occurs in every Part of the Bible, and illustrated by numerous Citations from the Targums, Talmud, and Cognate 11. Sullivan's Historical Causes and Effects NORTH AMERICAN AMERICAN REVIEW. No. XCVIII. JANUARY, 1838. 7. Bowen, ART. I.Gleanings in Europe. By the Author of "The Spy," &c., &c. Philadelphia. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard. 2 vols. 12mo. To write a good novel, we hold to be one of the highest efforts of genius. Many talents are required to this end, which are rarely combined in an individual. The novelist must unite in his own person the functions of the poet, the philosopher, and the dramatist; he must invent, discriminate, and hold the mirror up to nature," in the portraiture of character and passion, acting in their peculiar scenes and producing their characteristic effects. Though free from the shackles of rhythm and metrical arrangement, which embarrass the poet, he is bound to greater truthfulness in his exhibition of nature. He must not soar so high, that clouds may cover what had better be concealed; he must be distinct, graphic, true. Incidents are to be invented, not so common as to create weariness, nor so marvellous as to excite unbelief. Unity of action is essential; the story must have a beginning, middle, and end. A string of events, connected by no other tie, than the mere fact, that they happened to the same individual, or within a given period of years, may constitute a fictitious history or memoir, but it does not make a novel. A due regard to probability forms no trifling restriction. It is not enough, that incidents may be adduced from real life more VOL. XLVI. No. 98. 1 |