only to enter one of those new edifices which are rising in such multitudes around us. We see magnificent lobbies, spacious drawing room within drawing room; but enter the bedrooms, and we have scarcely room to move. The mode of living is entirely suitable. A few nights in the year, these apartments are thrown open to the whole town, but they rarely are the theatre of chearful and social entertainment; and the splendour of three or four fêtes entails pinching poverty on all the rest of the

year.

Such manners form certainly proper ground for satire; the author, therefore, has been fortunate in the choice of his subject; nor do we apprehend that he has any reason to dread the odium which such compositions are apt to incur. This odium we conceive to be attached exclusively to personal satire; what attacks every body, attacks nobody; and even those who are most determined to indulge in reigning follies, will not scruple to give a laugh to their humorous delineation.

With regard to the execution of the poem, it appears to us to display uncommon powers, and to be the production of an author of very superior genius. But we are not quite sure whether these powers be peculiarly appropriate to that satire, which is chiefly aimed at in the present production. The view, indeed, which he gives is, on the whole, just, and many of the features lively. Yet the passages which we more particularly admired were those of an elevated and tender cast, which are interspersed throughout the piece. Of these, the following short specimen, must, we think, please our readers:

Oh give me back, ye days of artless Worth,

The blissful Ease that call'd true Pleasure forth!

When lapt in quiet, careless, ardent, gay, First in retirement's shade I tun'd the lay,

F. Well, let them act, and laugh at all

erets forth;

Guards she not safe, as Evening's sun descends,

Their tender buds, and kind protection lends,

Shuts up their opening blossoms from the blight

Of baleful mildew and the blasts of night, Sheds strengthening pure her soft refreshing dews,

That, as they nourish, balmy sweets infuse,

Till safe from danger, warm meridian day

Beams on the full-blown beauties they display.

it

-Act thus the Mothers of our fashion'd Youth? P. 19. There are other in which passages, appears to us, that the author has not quite preserved the dignity which ought to temper even the most familiar satire. The following appears to us the passage in which this rule is most strikingly violated:

Tis true, indeed, none then were forc'd to learn

For Fashion's sake, things now of high concern;

Things, which to all, important rise to view,

Tho' Nature, startled, shrinks from things so new.

-I may forget -and yet it strikes me clear,

No Music then was learnt without an

bar leap.

P. 25.

There are some more trivial faults,

North?

affect

affect the merit of the poem, have long been accounted fair game by the critics; and therefore we may be allowed to point them out. A few lines are incorrect in quantity:

Let brain-struck maniacs take their
aerial course,

To circulate wide the wealth that
Fortune yields.

Notwithstanding these, however,

which seem to have arisen from carelessness, the general tone of the versification is good.

Our author has shewn a great partiality for double rhimes, which certainly, in humorous poetry, produce often a happy effect. We do not think, however, that he is altogether master of this difficult species of burlesque. One which occurs in our last

extract, is certainly far from good. Nor can we relish the following:

A. Add, if you please, our late new

fashion'd Factors.

very smooth and liquid, they produce no unhappy effect. Thus :

How short, my friend, the sight that forward glances

To future bliss!-how bright the gleam that dances

On Hope's high gilded summit, sweetly playing,

Which Fancy's flattering dream is but betraying!

Dark storms are gathering oft while Hope's beguiling,

The vale of Peace and Love so sweetly smiling, &c. P. 44.

The tale with which the poem con cludes seems destined to lash rural follies, as the first part had been directed against those of the town. It represeats a farmer's family ruined by that extravagance, which is no longer conSome parts fined to the city haunts. of this tale are exquisitely beautiful; others, which aim at ridicule, did not please us quite so much. The following, however, must be admitted to be a good picture of the changed pursuits of a modern farmer; though, it ap pears to us, that some really useful acquirements are involved in the general

men near;

bloom,

James plied the shuttle at his dreary loom, Low, airless, dank, placed on an earthen floor,

Where Health soon fades, to bud bloom no more!

and

P. 57.

At the end of the poem are whimically introduced some remarks on it, said to be by the author's friends, but, we presume, really by himself. The first and longest, which treats of the causes of this altered style of living, is sound and ingenious. The rest contain censures upon particular passages, some evidently ironical, others, as ap pears to us, real and unanswerable. The practice, on the whole, is rather calculated to draw attention by its novelty, than to become an object of general imitation.

FOREIGN.

IT is in contemplation to publish a

new and handsome edition of "Fuller's Worthies," under the sanction of the association of booksellers, who are presenting to the public improved and uniform editions of the most valuable of our English Chronicles. If any one had the presumption to attempt improving Fuller, the consequence would naturally and very properly be a total failure in the speculation. It is not by this assertion intended to say that he is faultless; but such is his general accuracy, and so pleasant are his excursory digressions, that it will be highly proper to consider him so strictly as an Enteration into the text, but rather to inglish classic, as not to admit a single al sert, in brief notes, such trifling errors as may be detected. Any notes or corrections,

rections, or any hints on the subject, that the admirers of Fuller may have the goodness to send to Messrs Nichols and Son, Printers, will be thankfully received, and duly noticed.

An important national work will be published about the Easter recess, under the title of County Annual Archives. Hitherto the annals of each county have been entirely lost to the public, and any one desirous of referring to any particular event or proceeding in the county in which he resides, has no means wherever of gaining such information, however interesting it may be to himself or important to the public. As the County Archives is intended to supply this desideratum, the contents of each annual volume will be arranged under the names of the counties to which they respectively belong, and the subjects classed under five general departments: 1. Public Business. 2. Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence. 3. Political Economy. 4. Chronicle. 5. Biography.

Mr Benjamin Thompson, of Nottingham, has in the press a Translation of M. Lasteyrie's Account of the Introduction of the Merino Race of Sheep into the several Countries of Europe where they are naturalized. The work is accompanied with notes relative to the mode of the managing this valuable breed, which the translator's experience has enabled him to supply.

The Rev. W. Kirby, A. B. F. L. S. author of Monographia Apum Angliæ, and Mr W. Spence, F. L. S. are engaged in preparing an Introduction to Entomology, which is in a state of considerable forwardness. The plan of the work is popular; but without overlooking science, to the technical and anatomical departments of which much new matter will be contributed, its object, after obviating objections, and removing prejudices, is to include every thing useful or interesting to the ento. mological student, except descriptions of genera and species, which are foreign to the nature of such a work.

A Tour through the central Counties of England, namely, Worcester, Stafford, Leicester, and Warwick, inclu ding their topography and biography, will shortly appear in a royal quarto volume, with twenty-four engravings.

Dr Watson has nearly ready for pub. lication, a Theoretical and Practical View of the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb; containing hints for the correc tion of impediments in speech, and illustrated by numerous plates.

A Translation of M. de Luc's Travels in the North of Europe, will appear in a few weeks.

Mr Hamilton's Travels in Syria and Egypt, may very soon be expected to appear.

The Hulsean premium has been adjudged to the Rev. William Heath, fel. low of King's college, Cambridge, for his dissertation "On the advantage of difficulties in religion; or an attempt to show the good effects which result, or which might result, from the proofs of Revelation being of a probable, rather than of a demonstrative, kind.”

Mr Spencer Smith, late minister plenipotentiary at the Ottoman Porte, and brother of Sir Sidney, has presented the university of Cambridge with two very valuable Greek marbles, to be added to the collection in the vestibule : namely, the body of an amphora, about three feet in length, from the shores of the Propontis; and a votive tablet, or cippus, from Cyzicus. The first exhibits a bas relief in a very high style of ancient sculpture, which is remarkable for the pileus, or Athenian hat, still worn by patriarchs of the Greek church; and of which, only one other representation is preserved in ancient sculpture.

Mr Marrat, of Boston, has in the press a Treatise on Mechanics, chiefly designed for the use of schools and public seminaries; it is publishing by subscription; and will appear about Midsummer next. The subscribers' names will be printed.

The author of the Husband and the Lover, has in the press a Romance, to be entitled the Daughters of Isenberg.

Wr. T. Woodfall, assistant Secretary to the Society of Arts, has announced his intention to publish, by subscription, in two octavo volumes, the whole of the valuable papers on Agriculture which have been brought before that Society.

Dr Smith is printing a Translation of Le Roy's instructions for Gouty and Rheumatic Persons.

POETRY.