700 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



THE BIBLICAL KEEPSAKE. JOHN MURRAY, AND CHARLES TILT, 



LONDON. 



MANY have been captious respecting the appearance of this beautiful 

 volume, on the ground that it is illustrated by engravings which have 

 already been before the public. This fact has been made known to the 

 world by the publishers through extensive advertisement, and does not in 

 our opinion deteriorate in the slightest degree the merit of the volume. 

 The engravings are from drawings by Turner, and embody all that is in- 

 teresting and beautiful to the enquirer into sacred history. 



FAUST. A SERIO-COMIC POEM, WITH TWELVE OUTLINE ILLUS- 

 TRATIONS. BY A. CROWQUILL. B. B. KING, MONUMENT-YARD. 



ALFRED CROWQUILL has lately been gaining ground in public estimation 

 by some comic sketches, which bear great evidence of talent. He has now 

 entered into competition with the various humourists, who have lately 

 elevated their powers to clothe <f the German in an English Dress," and, we 

 think, with much better success than his rivals. Lord Levison Gower, 

 Hay ward, and others have been completely eclipsed by Alfred Crow quill. 

 We extract his preface : 



"So many translations, both in prose and verse, have already appeared 

 of Goethe's celebrated drama, that we consider some apology due to the 

 reading public for this new attempt. The fact is, our predecessors, one 

 and all, only draw this wild poem into tame English. Now, we propose, 

 not to give a dull and literal translation of our author, but the true spirit 

 and meaning of the poem in the vernacular. 



ft In order to prove that our ability to execute this proposed task is equal 

 to our inclination, we beg to inform the gentle reader, firstly, that our 

 brother played the German flute ; secondly, that we have fed invariably 

 on German sausages during our labours ; thirdly, smoked a veritable Ger- 

 man maerschaum ; and lastly, to perfect our Teutonic inspiration, have 

 swallowed two tonics every night. 



"|This explanatory exordium, we think, will be sufficient to confound the 

 critics, and win the admiration of the public at our extraordinary endea- 

 vours at perfection. And now to the goodwill of our amiable readers, we 

 introduce and leave 



THE GERMAN IN AN ENGLISH DRESS. 



LONDON : BAVl.IS AND LEIGHTON, .lOHNSON's-COUUT, FLEET -STREET. 



