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able work, entitled Views of Society and 
Manners in America, in a series of Let- 
ters from that Country to a Friend in 
England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 
1826, by Mrs. Wricgut. There is great 
ability, and so much acute observation in 
these letters, that we have submitted cop- 
ous extracts from them in the Number of 
the Supplement published, and we trust deli- 
vered by the booksellerswiih this Magazine. 
The Carnival of Death, a Poem, by 
THomas BAILEY, is a very astoundiue 
display of the horrors of war, in very indif- 
ferent verse. We may convey the essence 
ofhis style and subject,in a few lines, in 
which he may be said to hit the nail on the 
head, and a hard blow into the bargain. 
Let our readers judge. 
Soldieis plunderine, 
Cannon thundering, 
Dying groaning, 
Wounded moaning, 
Build mgs erashing, 
Armour clashing, 
Waggons rattleing, 
Horsemen batileing ; 
Helmets ringing with the blows 
Which the ponderous sword bestows ; 
Pris’ners, on their knees, eulreating ; 
Trumpets sounding, drums loud beatin; ; 
Victors shouting, staying, swearing, 
Eagles wresting, standards tearing ; 
Show’rs ol shot; grenados, shells; 
Dismalshrieks, terrili¢ yells ; 
Falling roofs, 
Noise of hools— 
Combat, din, 
Without, within, 
All was mingled horror, fear, _ 
Madness, suffering, rage, despair. 4 
There are many savoury ingredients in 
this mess of horror, but Mr. Bailey does 
not possess theart of mixing them with suc- 
cess. The meal is good, but he is a bad 
cook. He deals largely in the trade of 
slaughter, and learns from experience, that, 
as he expresses it, 
“* The great and brave . 
Take no more killi-g than a slave.” ’ 
The object of the writer seems to be to 
promote pacific and good principles, but 
we apprehend he will not effect this by in- 
diting such productions as the volume be- 
fore us. The truth is, that he bas travelled 
out of his province on this occasion, and 
assumed a subject with which he cannot 
grapple. Itis too high for him; and we 
recommend him to confine himself to those 
milder and simpler themes on which he has 
been, and will be, much more successful. 
The Scottish Orphans, by Mrs. Buack- 
FORD, the author of The Eskdale Herd- 
boy, professes to be a moral tale, founded 
on an historical fact, and calculated to 
improve the minds of young people. This 
advertisement seems to us to be in all 
points correct, and we can with justice add, 
that the perusal of its simple pages has 
afforded us considerable pleasure. The 
orphans were deprived of their parents, 
during one of the rebellions of the last 
eentury, in favour of the Stuart family, and 
Critical Notices of Books of the Month. 
[Feb. J 
were committed to the hands of a humble 
dependent, to be brought up in privacy. 
Their re-establis:ment in the rank and 
fortunes of their family, forms the inter- 
est of the story, which is left unfinished 
in the present volume; but the favourable 
opiuion of the public on the merits of her 
useful task, will, we hope, induce the 
author to complete it speedily. 
The outery against Lord Byron for blas- 
phemy, grows long and loud, and is car- 
sied by bigotry or hypocrisy to a length 
which must disgust every moderate and 
impartial mind. Amongst the rest, we 
observe a Remonstrance, addressed to Mr. 
John Murray, respe ting a recent publica- 
tion, by OXONIENSIS, in which that pub- 
lisher is threatened with an information by 
theAttorney-General,and with the loss ofhis 
business, for daring to scandalize the pious 
by the publication of Cain. From another 
quarter, we are given to understand that 
a very high personage has condemned that 
poem to have no second edition, and has 
expressed his surprize that the Edinburgh 
and Quarterly Reviews have not singled 
out Lord Byron, and fulminated their 
anathemas against his immorality and im- 
piety. After this intimation, we shail 
scarcely be surprized at the appearance of 
an Index Expurgatorius issued under the 
sanction of this same high authority, in 
which we may reasonably expect to find 
the perusal of the Paradise Lost inhibited, 
lest the minds of his Majesty’s religious 
subjects should be perverted by the so- 
phistries of so ablea diailectician as Satan. 
If the mysteries of Lord Byron are to be 
discountenanced, it must be by the salu- 
tary operation of public opinicn, and not 
by the exertion of aibitrary authority. 
A little work has just been put into our 
hands, which promises to be of consider- 
able utility to Loudou and country medical! 
practitioners, whese time is so occupied 
by business, or whose education has been 
so limited as to preclude an acquaintance 
with the chemical decompositions which 
so frequently take place in the preparation 
of prescriptions. It is entitled the Hpi- 
tome of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, by 
Rees Price, M.D. In this work there is 
an alphabetical arrangement of the prin- 
cipal articles in the pharmacopceias on the 
left side of the page; and on the right is 
an enumeration (with cccasional perti- 
nent observations,) of those substances. 
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ANTIQUITIES. 
A Description of the Antiquities and other 
Curiosities of Rome; by the Rev. Edward 
Burton, M.A. 8vo. lds. 
Tamblichus ; or, the Mysteries of the Egyp- 
tians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians ; by Thos. 
Taylor, 8vo. 16s. 
ARCHITECTURE. 
No. 1. Vol. UH. Specimens of Gothic Ar- 
chitecture, 
