MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



its deities descended ; earth yawned, and gave up the pale spectres of the 

 dead, and the yet more undefined and grisly forms of those infernal deities, 

 who struck horror into the gods themselves." There is prefixed to this 

 volume a dissertation on the Grecian drama, of considerable length, written 

 very elegantly, and containing all the information which is necessary to 

 enable a reader properly to understand the tragedies of the Greeks. 



SCHOOL AND COLLEGE GREEK CLASSICS. THE PHILOCTETES OF SOPHOCLES, 

 WITH ENGLISH NOTES, BY G. BURGESS, A.M., TRIN. COLL. CAM. 



This edition of the Philoctetes will be found very useful by the student 

 whose knowledge of the language is not very extended. The notes contain 

 translations of the most difficult passages, and references to Matthias's 

 Greek Grammar, Vigor's Idioms, and many other works of the same descrip- 

 tion, in order to explain the construction of the original. The parallel 

 passages from Sophocles are frequently inserted in the notes, and where 

 there is a difficulty Mr. Burgess always endeavours, if not to remove it, at 

 least to explain the meaning, which is more than can be said of many anno- 

 tators, who, as Lord Bacon observes, are tedious and prolix where the 

 meaning is clear, but always pass over what is obscure. 



The editor appears to have taken great trouble in presenting a good text, 

 but we cannot approve of many of the alterations he has made. If he had 

 followed the text of the Oxford Edition of 1826, we should have been able to 

 give almost unqualified praise to the work. 



EDINBURGH ACADEMY. PRIZE LIST. EDINBURGH, ADAM BLACK. 



This is a pamphlet containing the prize essays in Latin, Greek, English, 

 and French, written by the young gentlemen of the Edinburgh Academy. 

 The Greek compositions are admirable. Never again can our learned bigots 

 boast the pre-eminent superiority of our own schools in classical learning to 

 those of the North. All persons who take an interest in the progress of 

 education would do well to procure this pamphlet. They will not fail to be 

 astonished and delighted, as we have been, with the elegance of the English 

 composition, and the classical correctness of the Greek and Latin essays. 



LYRIC LEAVES. BY CORNELIUS WEBBE. GRIFFITHS. 

 We were touched by " compunctious visitings" as we took up our pen to 

 indulge in some few remarks on this beautiful volume, that it should so long 

 have lain unnoticed by us. The truth is, it was hidden under books of 

 burlier dimensions, though of less worth ; a fate too often illustrated by the 

 " man of substance," and the lean, ideal poet. Mr. Webbe's muse is a 

 natural, a delightful one ; it sings of fields and flowers, and the sky in all 

 its changes of homely scenes, and of the affections born of home. Some of 

 the rustic sketches are exquisitely true to nature. We cannot, even in our 

 ample and numerous columns, give the rein to our wishes of extract ; there- 

 fore must content ourselves with recommending all true lovers of poetry, and 

 poetry in its truest, sweetest guise, speedily to possess themselves of Mr. 

 Webbe's little volume ; it will be found an admirable companion either to the 

 hearth or the greenwood-side. 



THE ARCHER'S GUIDE. HURST. LONDON. 



This is the most complete work of the kind we have seen. It abounds 

 with useful information to the professors of that " weapon of renown," the 

 long-bow. As a work for the general reader it is highly interesting, being 

 carefully compiled from a variety of authors, embracing its ancient and 

 modern history. 



