From the British Quarterly Review. ROBERT HALL. recall the image of departed greatness in a condensed form, with such new circumstances as personal knowledge might enable The Entire Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, us to record and affection embalm, assured A. M., with a Brief Memoir of his Life, that contemporaries will never be weary of by Dr. Gregory, and Observations on his a subject so cherished, and that the coming Character, as a Preacher, by John Fos- age cannot be furnished with many of more What is ter. Published under the superinten-instructive and enduring value. dence of Olinthus Gregory, LL. D., F.R.A.S. London, 1832. We do not think the method that was at first adopted to perpetuate the memory and the fame of Mr. Hall, by any means judicious. We have a memoir by Dr. Gregory, a character of him as a public man by Mr. Foster, several distinct sketches in pages and half pages by Anderson and others, and subsequently a more elaborate life by Morris, reminiscences by Green, and various minor contributions, having more or less of merit; consequently, everything relating to him is given in such a piecemeal and fragmental way, that we have neither the pleasure nor the instruction of one masterly and continuous narrative. Gregory's is pleasant, Foster's profound, Morris's heavy, and Green's frivolous. Scattered and various as these performances are, after the lapse of many years it seemed to us desirable to Vol. VII.-No. I. 1 most truly characteristic often vanishes with the life, which, like the setting sun, leaves only the radiant twilight for a time. To perpetuate these traits, and imprint them for contemplation on the page of a faithful however abbreviated, narrative, is a grate ful task, and not, we trust, unprofitable Men of great talent are said seldom to have clever sons; but to this rule the present instance furnishes an exception. The father of Robert Hall was a distinguished minister of the Baptist persuasion at Arnsby, a small village near Leicester; and the more than ordinary resemblance between them, both in the conformation of the head and features, and the order of their mental faculties, might afford some assistance to the dubious in the verification of physiognomical science. Robert (born at Arnsby, May 2, 1764) was the youngest of fourteen children, and, in infancy, the feeblest, though afterwards his frame and constitu From the British Quarterly Review. ROBERT HALL. The Entire Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, A. M., with a Brief Memoir of his Life, by Dr. Gregory, and Observations on his Character, as a Preacher, by John Foster. Published under the superintendence of Olinthus Gregory, LL. D., F.R.A.S. London, 1832. We do not think the method that was at first adopted to perpetuate the memory and the fame of Mr. Hall, by any means judi We have a memoir by Dr. Gregory, a character of him as a public man by Mr. Foster, several distinct sketches in pages and half pages by Anderson and others, and subsequently a more elaborate life by Morris, reminiscences by Green, and various minor contributions, having more or less of merit; consequently, everything relating to him is given in such a piecemeal and fragmental way, that we have neither the pleasure nor the instruction of one masterly and continuous narrative. Gregory's is pleasant, Foster's profound, Morris's heavy, and Green's frivolous. Scattered and various as these performances are, after the lapse of many years it seemed to us desirable to Vol. VII.-No. I. 1 recall the image of departed greatness in a condensed form, with such new circumstances as personal knowledge might enable us to record and affection embalm, assured that contemporaries will never be weary of a subject so cherished, and that the coming age cannot be furnished with many of more What is instructive and enduring value. most truly characteristic often vanishes with the life, which, like the setting sun, leaves only the radiant twilight for a time. To perpetuate these traits, and imprint them for contemplation on the page of a faithful however abbreviated, narrative, is a grate ful task, and not, we trust, unprofitable Men of great talent are said seldom to have clever sons; but to this rule the present instance furnishes an exception. The father of Robert Hall was a distinguished minister of the Baptist persuasion at Arnsby, a small village near Leicester; and the more than ordinary resemblance between them, both in the conformation of the head and features, and the order of their mental faculties, might afford some assistance to the dubious in the verification of physiognomical science. Robert (born at Arnsby, May 2, 1764) was the youngest of fourteen children, and, in infancy, the feeblest, though afterwards his frame and constitu |