Mr. Heraud is described by his
friends as the most amiable of men, and a fluent and popular lecturer
on the affirmative philosophy. He has recently intimated a wish to
cross the Atlantic, and read in Boston, a course of six lectures on
the subject of Christism as distinct from Christianity.
One of the best contributors to Mr. Heraud's Magazine was Mr.
J. Westland Marston. The papers marked with his initials are the
most eloquent in the book. We have greatly regretted their
discontinuance, and have hailed him again in his new appearance as a
dramatic author. Mr. Marston is a writer of singular purity of
taste, with a heart very open to the moral impulses, and in his
settled conviction, like all persons of a high poetic nature, the
friend of a universal reform, beginning in education. His thought on
that subject is, that "it is only by teachers becoming men of genius,
that a nobler position can be secured to them." At the same time he
seems to share that disgust, which men of fine taste so quickly
entertain in regard to the language and methods of that class with
which their theory throws them into correspondence, and to be
continually attracted through his taste to the manners and persons of
the aristocracy, whose selfishness and frivolity displease and repel
him again.
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