Liierary and Miscellaneous Inleltigence. [Feb. ! , 



and brilliant period has opened, that 

 almost resembles the fifteenth cen- 

 tury, in the suddenness, masculine 

 strength, and original splendor, of its 

 iutoilcetiial exertion. In France, in 

 Germanj', throughout the north and 

 east of Europe, from Siberia to Hun- 

 gary, great acquisitions have been 

 made in every region of mental and 

 physical discovery, into which power- 

 ful and accomplislied minds could 

 break their way. Of these labours the 

 English reader has been kept in 

 general ignorance, — an ignorance 

 which it is not within the ocopc of the 

 principal journals to enlighten." In 

 these observations, there is much truth 

 and good sense. 



A volume of Critical Researches on 

 Piiilo](»gy and Geography, will he 

 published ia a few days. 



Mr. Thelwall has obtained permis- 

 sion from the Lord Chamberlain to 

 deliver, on the Wednesdays and Fri- 

 days of the ensuing Lent, a Course of 

 Oiatorical Lectures on Shakspeare, 

 and on Dramatic Composition and 

 'J'ljcalrical Representations in general: 

 including animadversions on the pre- 

 sent .state of the Stage, both with 

 respect to writers and performers. 

 The Lectures will be delivered at the 

 Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, and 

 will commence on Wednesday the 

 lOlh (if March. The terms of sub- 

 scription proposed for the entire course 

 are two guineas for the boxes, and 

 twenty-four shillings for the pit. Of 

 the proposctl series, it is intended that 

 some iilay or character of Shakspeare 

 should be the leading subject of almost 

 every individual lecture ; with a gene- 

 ral preference to those which, either 

 in an abridged or interpolated state, 

 still continue on the list of acting 

 dramas. In the illustration of these, 

 animadversions will be introduced 

 ujion the respective playwrights who 

 have either judiciously abridged or 

 ]>reposteronsly disfigured the] produc- 

 tions of our immortal dramatist. Op- 

 portunities will also be taken to deve- 

 lop t'le causes of the present state of 

 dramatic literature; and to criticise, 

 with impartial freedom, such of the 

 (listinguislied authors of the present 

 hope of right judgment in matters o f day as have either given to (heir 

 the first importance to us as indivi- writings a dramatic form, or have 



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Capt. PARnY in his first voyage 

 discovered, after entering Lancaster 

 Sound, an opening, which he called 

 Prince Regent's Inlet ; and the Admi- 

 ralty, at the suggestion of Capt. Parry, 

 have resolved that this Inlet shall lie 

 examined, in order that no opening 

 which promises success may be neg- 

 lected ; he is therefore to proceed 

 thither, in the ensuing spring, in the 

 Heela ; and, fronj the situation where 

 Hearne discovered the sea, and the 

 apparent direction of Prince Regent's 

 Inlet, he hopes to succeed in reaching 

 Capt. Franklin's Cape 'i'urnagain 

 through it. 



Proposals arc circulated for pub- 

 lishing by subscription, a prose trans- 

 lation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, 

 by Miss L. Princeps. 



Dr. Thornton's Green-house Com- 

 panion is considerably advanced in 

 printing, and will soon be ready for 

 publication. It is intended as a fami- 

 liar manual for the general manage- 

 ment of a greenhouse, with numerous 

 useful lists, directions as to soils, and 

 a variety of familiar instructions neces- 

 sary to be attended to in the cultivation 

 ef flowers. 



Another new Review is announced, 

 to be published every two months, and 

 the first number will appear in March: 

 it will be entitled, the Universal 

 Review, or Chronicle of the Literature 

 of all Nations. "No man can doubt 

 (says the prospectus,) that the prin- 

 cipal Keviews have utterly failed in 

 these most essential points : that half a 

 dozen essays every three months are 

 unequal to give any idea of the pro- 

 gress of literature ; that the ambitious 

 authorship, whose object is simply to 

 display the powers of the reviewer, 

 must defeat the purpose of the reader, 

 who desires to be acquainted with the 

 '.ook; that the tone of sneering and 

 pert personality, which makes the study 

 and the triumph of moaern criticism, 

 goes directly to oflcnd correct taste, 

 and to insult and repel the progress of 

 all honourable and sensitive minds ; 

 and that, in addition, the notorious 

 bondage and instrumentality of those 

 reviews, as tools of government or of 

 opposition, totally extinguishes the 



duals, as subjects of a free state, and 

 as lovers of literature. In those jour- 

 nals, too, foreign publication has found 

 but the most trivial and occasional 

 notice. Yet, on the Continent, a new 



furnished the materials from which the 

 most popular of our recent dramas 

 have been extracted. The original 

 matter of these Lectures (including 

 the whole of the animad-\ersions and 

 'liriticisms,) 



