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
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[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).
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[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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