Mirror of Literature,  4 (1824), 408–13.

Christmas and New Year Presents

Anon

Genre:

Introduction; Literary Notice, Extract

Publications extracted:

Forget Me Not Friendship's Offering Literary Souvenir Remember Me



[2] Friendship's Offering; or, The Annual Remembrancer

Subjects:

Instruments, Morality, Psychology, Metaphysics


    The notice of the contents of Friendship's Offering includes a lengthy description of a tale by Maria Edgeworth entitled the 'Mental Thermometer' (409–11). The mental thermometer of the tale is a real instrument which measures on a scale of happiness and misery. It is broken when it comes into the hands of a metaphysician wishing to perfect his theory of the human mind, the liquor rising to 'the point of perfect felicity' with extreme violence (411).



[4] Remember Me, a New Year's Gift; or, Christmas Present for 1825

Subjects:

Botany, Illustration, Aesthetics


    The Remember Me bases its claim for patronage on 'its botanical embelishments, which to say the truth, are very prettily coloured. The botanical descriptions are by Dr. Thornton' (413).




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