WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED 



vain to occupy. Great as may tiave been the public expectation, (and the aiiiioimce- 

 inent of the worlv excited no slight attcJition,) the number now before us will not disap- 

 point its readers. There is in every page evidence of vast resources, and extensive 

 intellectual attainments. We recognize, if we mistake not, the descriptive beauties 

 and masterly hand of a Scott — the high attainments and elegant diction of a Soullie^' — • 

 and the splendid talents of the best contributors to some of our most po))ular i)eriod- 

 icals." — Nexo Times. 



" Wc have just received the first number of a .Tournal, which is to make foreign pro- 

 ductions popularly known in England, and which, if it be conducted on this principle, 

 will fill a large void in our periodical literature. From the hastj- glance which we have 

 yet hccn able to throw over its contents, it promises, we think, to fulfil o^n' best hopes." 

 After noticing some of the leading articles, it concludes. — " There are, also, some 

 light and pleasant articles in the Review, and, judging from a very spirited translation 

 (at the end of an article on Italian Tragedy) of an Ode on the Anniversary of Buona- 

 parte's Death, which we subjoin, we should suppose there are among the reviewers 

 poets of no ordinary talents." — Morning Chronicle. 



" As far as considerable elegance of writing, striking powers of thought, copious 

 learning, and versatility of talent, can make a Review popular, this possesses every 



claim OH public attention." " On the whole we are delighted with this opening 



number of the ' Foreign Quarterly Review,' and if talent, chastised by judgment, be a 

 test of success, we do not hesitate to predict its popularity." — Sun, 



" Inasmuch as the objects proposed by the Editors of the Foreign Quarterly Review 

 are in our eyes extremely valuable, we are disposed to look with peculiar favour on the 

 bold attempt they have made to carry them into effect. The Foreign Qiiarterli/ is in 

 appearance and temper a kind of twin publication with the quieter specimens of the 

 Qiiarttrlti of Albemarle Street, and ought to be considered as the pendant of that pub- 

 lication. As far as the first number of a periodical is a specimen, this undertaking may 

 be pronounced to be one of an extremely respectable description. Its contributors 

 appear to be men of information, industry, and good sense." — ^4(/as. 



" In continuation of what we said lately regarding the New Quarterly Review of 

 Foreign Literature, we are happy to inform our readers, that, having seen an early 

 copy of the first number, we are able to speak more confidently in approbation of the 

 work. This number promises well ; and, by active exertion on the part of the editors, 

 we have little hesitation in saying, that it will not only s^ipply a great deficiency in our 



literature, but also become eminently popular." " In several of the papers here 



presented to us, we think we can unequivocally recognize the style of those well-known 

 and highly eminent authors, to whom we before alluded as being engaged in support- 

 ing the undertaking." — Literary Gazette. 



" We think highly of the utility of this work, which seems to us well calculated to 

 supply what is indisputably a desideratum in our literature. The literature of France, 

 Germany, and other countries, which is prolific at this day bej'ond all previous example, 

 undoubtedly presents a vast mass of materials for criticism and speculation. To active 

 and inquisitive persons in Britain, it is of some importance to know how the human 

 mind is occupied in other countries — what new ideas are thrown out — what discoveries 

 made — and in what tract speculation runs. If the reviewer supplies us with Lnforma- 

 tion on these points, we are in his debt ; and the general views and luminous abstracts 

 with which he presents us arc so much the more valuable, if a foreign language, or any 

 other circumstance, deny us access to the originals. To the English reader it is of no 

 consequence Irom what source the reviewers draw the'hr materials ; his only anxiety is 

 to be made acquainted, as speedily and as early as possible, with everything new in the 



world of intellect ' Foreign Reviews' like this will correct, though they cannot 



altogether remove, the inequalities in the distribution of knowledge. They will natu- 

 ralize ihe more important truths that spring up in a foreign soil ; they will point out the 

 land-marks of research, discussion and speculation amimg our neighbours; and when 

 they do not give minute intbrmation, they often indicate the channel through which it 

 is to be obtained. 



" 'Hie first number, now before us, of the Foreign Quarterly Review affords a favour- 

 able specimen of the talents of the conductors. It is handsomely got up, so far as 



