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those ^x-ritings is alike creditable to the enterprise of 

 the publishers, and well calculated to exercise a bene- 

 ficial influence upon the political condition of the coun- 

 try. It would indeed be well if all who aspire to seats 

 in the new parliament would fit themselves for such 

 positions by a study of the writings of Edmund Burke. 



Mr. Willis has just issued a neat reprint of what 

 has now become a very scarce volume. The Poetry of 

 the Anti-Jacobin, a work which may be regarded as a 

 model of political satire. It is accompanied by occa- 

 sional notes elucidating allusions now become obscure 

 through lapse of time, and the blanks in the text have 

 been filled up with the names of the various persons 

 introduced or alluded to. Some attempt has also been 

 made to identify the various authors by whom the 

 several articles were written ; but we are surprised to 

 find this so imperfectly executed, for when the editor 

 speaks of the authorship being in many cases mere 

 matter of conjecture, it is clear that he did not know 

 of the very curious, and, we may add, authentic list, 

 furnished to the third volume (p. 348.) of this journal 

 by Mr. Hawkins of the British Museum ; who has 

 also given a history of the work, and of the manner in 

 ■which it was conducted, which ought to have been 

 made use of 



Books Received. — Legal Iambics in Prose, suggested 

 Ig the present Chancery Crisis, a quaint discourse, in 

 •which there is no small learning and humour, and to 

 ■which may be applied, with some variation. Gay's well- 

 known Epilogue : 



" Our pamphlet has a moral, and no doubt 

 You all have sense enough to find it out." 



An Essay upon the Ghost Belief of Shakspeare, by 

 Alfred Roflfe, is a little pamphlet well deserving pe- 

 rusal, in which the author — who holds that ghost belief, 

 rightly understood, is most rational and salutary — en- 

 deavours to show that it must have had the sanction 

 of such a thinker as Shakspeare. ■. — Rome in the Nine- 

 teenth Century, containing a complete account of the 

 Ruins of the Ancient City, the Remains of the Middle 

 Ages, and the Monuments of Modern Times, by Char- 

 lotte A. Eaton. Fifth Edition, Vol. I., the new issue 

 of Bohn's Illustrated Library, with its thirty-four en- 

 graved illustrations, will be found a very useful and 

 instructive guide to the " Eternal City." — The 

 Heroidcs, the Amours, Art of Love, §-c., of Ovid, trans- 

 lated (with the judicious exception of the more ques- 

 tionable passages, which are left in the original Latin), 

 forming the new volume of Bohn's Classical Library. 

 In his Standard Library we have now the fifth and 

 concluding volume of what has been well described as 

 "the enthralling Biographies of Vasari." Thus for 

 considerably less than one pound has the English lover 

 of Art the means of possessing one of the most interest- 

 ing and instructive works on the subject of his favourite 

 study ever produced. The work deserves, and, we 

 trust, will meet with a very wide circulation. 



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and Ghent, 1826. Vol. I. 

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