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and, although we cannot venture to assert that his conclusions are invariably 

 just, yet we have no doubt they are such as the data with which he was 

 furnished must necessarily lead to. For instance, we cannot agree with 

 him when he speaks with high praise of the courage of Prince Mavrocordato, 

 whom we happen to have seen under circumstances that were well adapted 

 for the display of that quality. Neither are we disposed to enrol the name 

 of Demetrius Ipsilanti with those of Themistocles, Miltiades, and Thrasybu- 

 lus, although willing to accord him all the credit which is due to a brave but 

 very weak-minded man. When our author tells us, that John Capo d'istrias 

 was an illustrious, but mistaken man, ardently devoted to his country, we 

 are almost disposed to set to, and prove him to have been a designing un- 

 scrupulous villain, and a tool in the hands of the Russian autocrat ; but as 

 we are satisfied, that the author writes from conviction, we are inclined to 

 believe that a longer and more intimate acquaintance with the men and 

 their acts, would have led him to opinions, wide as the poles from those he 

 now expresses. His relation of the execution of poor George Mavromi- 

 chaelis, with whom we were well acquainted, and whom accumulated in- 

 juries had driven to the deed for which he suffered, is touching in the ex- 

 treme. We conclude by cordially recommending the work to all those who 

 do not object to pay nine shillings and sixpence for two hours' reading. 



FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. No. XL. LONDON. VALPY. 



THE fortieth volume of Valpy's Classical Library, contains a biographical 

 sketch of Ovid, with a good portrait, and nine books of his Metamorphoses, 

 translated by Dry den, Addison, and others. In the forthcoming number, 

 the works of Publius Ovidius Naso will be completed. 



POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND. BY ROBERT MONTGOMERY MARTIN. LONDON. 

 PARBURY, ALLEN, AND Co. 



THE cheapest and most permanent remedy for the unhappy condition of 

 society in the Sister Kingdom, would be a compulsory provision for the poor. 

 Not humanity and justice alone, but policy and economy now require a sys- 

 tem of taxation, which, abstracting from the wealth of absentee proprietors, 

 shall render the cottage of the peasant secure from the murderous visitation 

 of his fellow-peasant. It is no longer to be borne, that while the landowners 

 revel in princely revenues, the starving population of their estates are 

 thrown for support, in periods of distress, upon the manufacturers and 

 farmers of England. These views are very ably supported by the author of 

 the pamphlet before us. The facts, opinions, and calculations which he ad- 

 duces, are well worthy of the serious attention of all those who are now 

 occupied with this important subject. 



A SERIES OF VIEWS IN INDIA. PART II. BY CAPT. J. LUARD. LONDON. 



J. DICKINSON. 



THIS work does great credit to the taste and skill of Capt. Luard. It is 

 seldom that drawings on stone are produced with so much sweetness of 

 half-tint as these display. The Indian Armour is particularly beau- 

 tiful. In the absence of more forcible effect, we fully appreciate the 

 pains bestowed upon all the subjects. In the view of the fort, Selim Gurh, 

 an appearance of great extent and height of building is produced ; though, 

 as a composition, the deficiency of varied lines renders it naked and uninte- 

 resting. The gateway at Lucknow might have been much more effective to 

 the eye, and pleasing to the fancy, were the details less obtrusively marked, 

 and a more picturesque disposition of the chiaro-scuro substituted for the 

 present meagre relief. 



