MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



singularly objectionable, and directly at variance with itself. Thus in 

 speaking of the Reviewers, whom he enumerates separately, he very 

 justly says, that they have treated him with brotherly kindness ; and 

 then adds, "This is indeed noble, and, it grieves me to add, un-English 

 conduct." Towards the end, he again says, in contradiction to his 

 first remark, * almost on the first publication of the " Corn Law 

 Rhymes, the monthly reviewers, in whom baseness seems to be an instinct or 

 a fatality" &c. For ourselves, we judge of books by their merit; but 

 as to its being un-English to grasp a fellow-labourer in the field of 

 literature, by the hand of brotherly kindness, we consider it to be 

 decidedly English ; and farther, for ourselves and our cotemporaries, we 

 repudiate the assertion that baseness clings to us, either as an instinct or 

 by fatality. 



Pompeii, and other Poems. By the Rev. SAMUEL MIDDLETON. 

 Smith, Elder and Co., London. 



Mr. Middleton shows himself possessed of considerable poetic power. 

 The subject he has chosen for his muse is also favourable for his religious 

 and moral strain of feeling, and we have been much pleased in reading his 

 Pompeii and Niobe. We give the following lines, as a proof of the 

 correctness of our opinion, from the destruction of Pompeii: 



" Meanwhile, the crowds again, in frantic wrath 

 And desperate fury, urge their onward path ; 

 All social ties are lost, no further stay 

 Self self alone, impels the headlong way. 

 State, rank or sex, no more their thoughts engage, 

 The helpless infant, or decrepid age. 

 Despairing, crushing, trampling on they go, 

 Like bellowing ocean, in its wildest flow. 

 Forward they press, 'midst groans, and oaths, and cries, 

 While sudden shrieks and solemn prayers arise/' 



A new Picturesque Steam-Boat Companion, in an Excursion to 

 Greenhithe, Northfleet, Gravesend, the Nore, and Herne-Bay, &c. 

 Effingham Wilson, London. 



A very acceptable work, particularly at this season. It is excellently 

 illustated, and so cheap that every body, who wishes to know all arid 

 every thing which comes under notice, in the jaunts down the River, 

 should put it in their pocket. 



Arboretum Britannicum. No. V. Encyclopaedia of Gardening. 

 Part XVIII. Architectural Magazine. No. XV. Longmans, 

 London. 



Mr. Loudon has owing to him a debt of gratitude from his country, 

 which we trust the success of his works, in some respects, repays. The 

 Parts before us are, like their fore-runners, absolute authorities on the 

 different subjects of and concerning which they treat. 



A Manual of Entomology. Translated from Burmeister. With Ori- 

 ginal Notes and Plates. Part IV. Churton, London. 



A cheap and excellent manual. Oue much wanted in this country, 



