■|S24.] Liltrurii and Critical Prci'mium, 



leliiiioii were, for tlie most part, directed 

 ajjajiit Catliolie iniiiiuiierics and iniraeles. 



We arc iiuitl)ted to the Kev. H. F. 

 Carey for an oriniiiiil translation of Tlic 

 Birds of AristophdiHS into Enslisli verse. 

 We consider llie performance liiffhly cie- 

 cJitabie in every respect ; and tlis text is 

 much improved by foot notes, at once ex- 

 planatory and critical. We regret tliat 

 our room dues not permit ns to introdnce 

 one of many passai;es wliicli would liave 

 jnstillcd oiM' hiyh opinion of the work, 



Mr. UowDOTHniM has produced the 

 clearest Gernran and lingllsli Grammar 

 which we have seen. The study of Ger- 

 inan has liitherto been obsti acted in Eng- 

 land by the circumstance, that the English 

 grammars of the language have been the 

 forbidding productions of Germans; and 

 lience they have been German and Eng- 

 lish, instead of being English and German. 

 By means of Mr. R.'s luminous grammar, 

 in vvliich he exhibits a corresponding tami- 

 liarity with both languages, the study of 

 German is likely to be considerably pro- 

 moted. 



We have been nuicli gratified by the 

 perusal of Mr. Stevenson's small treatise 

 just published, on the Kature and Symptoms 

 of Cataract ; in which is recocnnicnded an 

 early operation in cases of incipient disor- 

 der, so as to prevent its full formation. 

 We doubt not that, in able hands, the prac- 

 tice proposed by i\lr. S. of arresting the 

 progress of blindness by exciting the ab- 

 sorbent action, will prove abundantly use- 

 ful ; and we earnestly reconmiend, both to 

 the profession and the public, a candid in- 

 vestigation of Mr. Stevenson's claim to a 

 very oiiginal impiovement in a very 

 important branch of operative surgery. 

 We are told by him, that the plan he re- 

 commends, of early removing the diliereiit 

 species of cataract, '* is not only easier of 

 execution, much more cci tain ni its effects, 

 and comparatively free fron) danger, but 

 that it is also universally applic.ible to 

 every species of cataract at the early 

 period of its formu-.icn, when neither of 

 the common processses can be resorted to 

 with safety or success." 



Mu. Thomas Martin's Philological 

 Grammar of the English Language, is the 

 completest body of information on the 

 English language which has been collected 

 into a single book. It is too ample for the 

 use of schools, but it merits a place in the 

 library of every studious person, and will 

 be valued as containing pertinent stric- 

 tures on other grammars in general use. 



We thought our travellers had exhausted 

 Egypt, and especially Italy ; but no sub- 

 ject is exhausted, when touched by the 

 Waod of genius. We have, therefore, pe- 

 rused with great interest, a delightful 

 Volume by a Gcnilenian, entitled. Semes 

 and Imprcssiuns in Egypt and in Italy. He 



MoNTiii.Y Mao. No. 395. 



439 

 has carried ns with him, and brought 

 every stiiking ohject so accurately before 

 our mental eye, as to render it unnecessary 

 for ns to undergo his (atignes and danger.^, 

 though she ei!.iblcs ns to partake of all his 

 pleasures. We are persuaded that our 

 readers will Iliaiik us for recommending 

 this vohinie to their early attention. 



A semi-till ological work has appeared, 

 under the title of a Biographical Portraiture 

 of the late liev. James Uiittnn ; and, to those 

 who are partial to religious biogiaphy and 

 iion-conroniiist history, the work will 

 afl'ord much gratification. 



hruiginary Coiivirsuiiovs of Literary Men 

 and Statesmen, by Walter Savage 

 Landor, esq. This work, comprised in 

 two volumes, octavo, and inscribed to 

 Major-Geneial Stopfoid, adjutant-general 

 ill the army of Columbia, embraces, as its 

 title imports, a great variety of topics ; 

 but this is tlie least of its recommenda- 

 tions. It is written in the pure spirit of 

 l)atriotism ; and, in fiee and luminous 

 language, explains some of the most valua- 

 ble triiiaius. The styles of the dialogues, 

 however, are, in some respect, accommo- 

 dated to the several characteis who speak; 

 which propriety, inasmuch as it favouis 

 the colloquial plan of the publication, ia 

 highly eligible, though it occasionally, and 

 necessarily, renders the phraseology some- 

 what quaint and antique. Even the con- 

 versations of the seventeenth century bore 

 so ditferent a character from those of the 

 present day, that, without observing that, 

 in many instances, ihey would how 

 scarcely be understood, we may justly 

 say, that they would rarely be veiy palata- 

 ble, or carry with them that obvious 

 meaning by which those who lai: might 

 read, or those who perused might readily 

 comprehend. V/ith respect to the opi- 

 nions expressed mi the course of the work, 

 we have the satisfaction to state, that, 

 while they are unavoidably suited to the 

 l>ersonages by whom they are uttered, the 

 internal sentiments of the author aie 

 every where sufficiently traceable, to im- 

 bue the reader with the best moral and 

 political principles; and, of course, to 

 serve the gieat cause of virtue and free- 

 dom. But, so judicious has Mr. Landoi- 

 been in his choice of interlocutors, tliatia 

 many, if not most, instances, he has to 

 adopt the opinions and piinciplcs of some 

 of the greatest men, ancient and modern, 

 that ever adorned the earth. Demos- 

 thenes, Sophocles, Pericles, Cicero, Wash- 

 ington, Middleion, Chatham, Franklin, 

 Home Tooke, Na|)oleon, Kosciusko, and 

 Colocotroni, severally figure in his dia- 

 logues ; and no where does he impute to 

 them sentiments incommensurate with 

 their virtuous and illustrious minds, nor 

 draw from their lips expressions unworthy 

 of tiieir ruiik and education. Indeed, it 

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