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shelf, if not upon the same table, of most of the gentlemen employed in the 

 different offices. With regard to his private virtues, I know nothing, of his 

 principles I have heard enough." 



It will be seen from the above quotation that no inconsiderable portion of 

 his defence of Don Juan, is nothing more than an attack upon others ; and 

 where he does answer his reviewer, it is rather as an apologist for the poet, 

 than the poem. There is a great deal said about his " war with the world," 

 and his exile from England, in consequence of the calumnies of certain 

 " enlightened anglo-circles," with " a considerable leaven of Welbeck-street, 

 and Devonshire-place," which is too ridiculous to quote. That he should 

 have " settled himself by the waves of the Adriatic, like the stag at bay, 

 who betakes himself to the waters," because " the fashionable world was 

 divided into two parties" respecting his conduct and the majority was 

 against him, shows a littleness of mind, or an affectation of sensibility, 

 equally absurd and contemptible. 



The present volume, as the prefatory advertisement announces, " contains 

 three cantos of Don Juan, the first and second written at Venice in 1808, 

 and the third at Ravenna, in October, 1819- A dedication and several other 

 stanzas hitherto suppressed, are now given in their proper places ; and from 

 two separate MSS. of the poet, many various and interesting readings have 

 been supplied. 



DON QUIXOTE. VOL. II. LONDON : EFFINGHAM WILSON. 



This volume is illustrated by a well engraved, and well printed imaginary 

 portrait of Sancho Panza, from a capital design on wood, by Meadows, and 

 five rich racy etchings by George Cruikshank. The first, and perhaps the 

 best of these, is " Don Quixote enchanted in the Cage ;" in the second, 

 Gines de Passamonte has just stolen Dapple. Quixote, Rosinante, and 

 Sancho are here exquisitely treated : the most profound repose prevails, ex- 

 cept where, in the distance, Gines is absconding with Dapple at such a 

 pace, however, as we should scarcely have supposed the Squire's steed was 

 capable of achieving. In the third, Sancho is introducing the Don to Dul- 

 cinea ; in the fourth, we have the Squire of the Wood's nose gleaming, to 

 the mutual astonishment of Sancho and his master, in a choice bit of woody 

 landscape. In the last of the series, Quixote is depicted in the act of braving 

 the lion ; and here the writing engraver has given a spice of that quality, for 

 which the corps to which he belongs is so deservedly eminent namely that 

 of boldly deviating from the beaten track in quest of new spellings. Mr. 

 Roscoe, the editor, is a niggard he gives the Don but one T ; the letter- 

 writer benignantly affords him two. 



FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. No. XXXIX. LONDON : VALPY. 



In this number, Pope's translation of the Odyssey, from Book V. to Book 

 XXIV. is given, together with the postcript. The next number will contain 

 Ovid. It is an advantage to purchasers, that any author comprised in this 

 publication may be had separately. 



THE FAMILY TOPOGRAPHER. BY SAMUEL TYMMS. VOL. III. THE 

 NORFOLK CIRCUIT. LONDON : NICHOLS AND SON. 



THE present volume is devoted to a condensed topographical account of 

 the following counties Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgshire, 

 Huntindonshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk ; of each of which a neat map is given. 

 Though small, the work is calculated to be useful, on account of the judg- 

 ment displayed by the editor in selecting his materials, and his skilful mode 

 of arranging them. Under the head of Lyme Regis, we find the following 



