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200.: THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY FOR APRIL 1833 EXAMINER, 14 APR., 1833, PP. 229-30 - The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II

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200.: THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY FOR APRIL 1833 EXAMINER, 14 APR., 1833, PP. 229-30 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY FOR APRIL 1833

EXAMINER, 14 APR., 1833, PP. 229-30

For the first of Mill’s notices of the Monthly Repository, see No. 198. Mill’s own “Writings of Junius Redivivus” was in the April number of the Monthly Repository. This review, in the “Literary Examiner,” is headed “The Monthly Repository for April [n.s. VII]”; the page numbers refer to this volume. The review is described in Mill’s bibliography as “A short notice in the Examiner of 14th April 1833 of the number of the Monthly Repository for the same month” (MacMinn, p. 26). In the Somerville College set of the Examiner, it is listed as “Notice of the Monthly Repository for April” and enclosed in square brackets.

this we think decidedly the best number which has yet appeared of Mr. Fox’s excellent periodical. There is no one article in it of the surpassing merit which distinguished the affecting paper in the last number on Mehetabel Wesley;¹ but the general average is decidedly higher than in that number; none of the articles, perhaps, are without some kind or degree of merit and usefulness, and several are almost too good to be limited to the transitory and perishable existence of articles in a magazine. Among these we must include the paper on the life, character, and writings of Dr. Priestley, the last of three articles on the same subject, exhibiting very considerable philosophical attainments and unusual skill in the analysis of character.²

There are many passages in this and other articles well worthy of extraction, but we prefer to copy out the following verses, which express feelings such as all poets must have expressed, with a perfect truth and yet with an originality of manner which marks, even in so slight a production, real genius:

To Kathleen
- Thou hast jetty eyes in brightness glancing,
- Glossy ringlets in the free air dancing,
- Cheek from rose to lily ever changing,
- As thro’ feeling’s world thy thought is ranging.
- Thou bringest gifts of Nature’s fairest treasure
- To those who reckon every flower a pleasure
- Dewy darlings! exquisite creations!
- E’en their shadows seem to have sensations.
- Yet should beauty fade, and flowers wither,
- I will bid thee ever welcome hither;
- Though every charm beside were from thee parted,
- Thou hast that best of all—thou’rt honest-hearted.
- Then welcome, Kathleen, whatsoe’er thou bringest,
- Welcome hither when this way thou wingest,
- Not for eye, or cheek, or dewy blossom,
- But the heart thou wear’st within thy bosom.³

[1 ]The article, by Fox, is praised in No. 198.

[2 ]James Martineau, “On the Life, Character, and Writings of Dr. Priestley,” pp. 231-41; the two previous articles had appeared in the January and February numbers, on pp. 19-30 and 84-8. For Mill’s other laudatory comments on this paper, which influenced his associationist psychology, see CW, Vol. I, p. 591n, Vol. VII, p. 481, Vol. XII, pp. 236, 247, 258, and Vol. XVII, p. 1961. Martineau (1805-1900), a Unitarian divine, brother of Harriet Martineau, was writing on Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), the radical Unitarian clergyman and chemist.

[3 ]Anon., p. 251.