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evcry-wbere described the characters he 

 meets with, in the most natural manner; 

 yet, in this tale, they possess the advan- 

 tage of peculiar novelty, as well as of in- 

 terest, from the situations in which they are 

 placed. The work is interspersed with 

 poetry of no ordinary merit. After sin- 

 cerely recommending our readers to pe- 

 ruse the work, and judge for themselves, 

 we shall present them with the following 

 specimen : 



Song of thn Landei. 

 The moonlight, through the branching pines. 



Floats o'er the sands with silver streak; 

 How like the chasten'd beam, that shines 



Through dark-fring'd lids, on beauty's check, 

 When timid glances trembling steal 

 From thy bright eyes, mine own Caiille! 



As o'er the desert-stream's smooth breast 



The nigh-winds from the forest shed 

 Light leaves, to break the waters rest, 



It vibrates in Its deepest bed, — 

 So doth my thrilling bosom feel 

 Thy soft-breath'd words, mine own Cazille! 

 I see thee not, but thou art here! 



Even as Heaven's lamp, obscur'd awhile. 

 Still lights the desert far and near. 



Through sorrow's cloud, thy mellow smile 

 Makes life's dull waste bright spots reveal, 

 And lights on me, mine own Cazille! 



Mr. Crabbe has completed his Techno- 

 logical Dictionary, and has thereby ren- 

 dered a valuable and acceptable service to 

 the literature of the country. Nothing 

 has been more wanted by students, and 

 readers in general, than a complete alpha- 

 bet of the technical language of all the 

 sciences, and such a task Mr. Crabbe has 

 ably and honestly performed. Nor is the 

 work a mere dull glossary ; for he lias ap- 

 pended to his definitions, such other expla- 

 nations, as render the work a succinct ge- 

 neral Cyclopaedia. We recommend it as a 

 necessary companion to Johnson's Dicti- 

 onary; and hope to see abridgments of it 

 in all the various forms in which Johnson 

 is presented to the world. 



We cannot refuse ourselves the plea- 

 sure of recommending to the public notice 

 a little volume, whose humble pretensions 

 and unassuming form might easily be over- 

 looked. It consists of a small collection 

 of sonnets, entitled Ulossoms, by Robert 

 MiLLHOUSE, with prefatory remarks on 

 his humble station, distinguished genius, 

 and moral character, by the Rev. Luke 

 Booker, ll.d. Upon these points, the 

 testimony borne by the worthy editor is 

 highly satisfactory, and it gives us sincere 

 pleasure to find such able and friendly 

 assistance afforded to the author, in his 

 exertion of those poetical talents with 

 which he is certainly not meanly endowed. 

 The sonnets are written with much sim- 

 plicity and pathos, and bear the impres- 

 sion of a sensitive, honourable, and virtu- 

 ous mind. A sufficient passport to public 

 approbation will be found in the intrinsic 

 merit of these little compositions ; bnt we 

 must not withhold a further appeal, made 

 with warmth by the editor, and we trust 

 not unsuccessfully, on belialf of the inge- 



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nious poet, "that his pressing temporal 

 wants form an additional plea, which will 

 be admitted by the Christian as well as 

 the scholar." 



A collection of the Poems o/Miss He- 

 len Maria Williams has recently been 

 published, containing the pieces which 

 have before been given to the world, with 

 several, which are now for the first time 

 printed. The reputation which Miss 

 Williams has long enjoyed in the world, 

 and which she has merited by her numer- 

 ous and ardent exertions in the cause of 

 letters and of freedom, will receive a per- 

 manent addition from the union of her fu- 

 gitive productions in the present volume. 

 It would, perhaps, be going too far, to say 

 that the poetry we here find is of a very 

 superior order; and we must be content- 

 ed, perhaps, to regard this lady as an ele- 

 gant versifier and a forcible prose writer. 

 Prefixed to tlie volume, we find some very 

 interesting remarks on the present state of 

 science and literature in France, a subject 

 on which the writer is extremely well qua- 

 lified to judge, and on which her opinions 

 must meet with the greatest respect. She 

 repels with warmth the charge, that let- 

 ters, and, in particular, poetry, are at a low 

 ebb in France ; and she maintains that the 

 great events of the revolution have given 

 a strong impulse to the genius of that 

 people, and a new and more favourable 

 character to its literary exertions. With 

 the old regime, she considers that they 

 have discarded much of the art and cere- 

 monial of composition, and attached them- 

 selves to a bolder and more natural style 

 of sentiment and expression. The picture 

 which she draws of the state of moral feel- 

 ing and intellectual refinement in that 

 country is highly satisfactory; and, amongst 

 other pleasing suggestions, leads us to be- 

 lieve that its inhabitants cannot possibly 

 be converted into instruments for extin- 

 guishing, in otlier lands, those free princi- 

 ples, and that cultivation of mind, which 

 they so carefully cherish at home. 



The Rev. S. Barrow has adapted the 

 Bible to the use of schools, by judiciously 

 selecting the whole of the narrative parts, 

 and printing them in a large type, in the 

 very language of the English Scriptures. 

 The work is enhanced in interest by i ao 

 engravings, and it cannot fail to become a 

 standard and universal school-book. 



The voice of universal applause and ad- 

 miration, echoed through the whole coun- 

 try, has long anticipated any judgment 

 which we might pronounce upon the 

 Speech of Mr, Brougham on the Spanish 

 Question, which has been printed in a se- 

 parate form, and is circulating with great 

 and deserved rapidity. The principal 

 strength of this eloquent appeal consists 

 in the fact, that it is not the private opi- 

 nion of an individual, however able and 

 eminent, which is there enforced ; but that 



