1822.] 
so familiar and amiable a light, as to im- 
press our feelings with something of an 
affectionate regard for his memory. 
Amongst the better class of Novels 
which have lately appeared, may be ranked 
the Spy, a Tule of the Neutral Ground, in 
three volumes, the scene of which is laid 
in America during her struggle for inde- 
pendence. This work is, on the whole, 
cleverly written, and contains some able 
delineations of American scenery and 
mamers. It displays, perhaps, a, little 
transatlantic partiality; but, in the main, 
it may be considered to present a toler- 
ably fair view of the state of feeling in 
America at that period. The portrait of 
Washington is well drawn, and the mild 
yet firm benignity of his disposition is 
happily described. The character of 
Major Dunwoodie, a young soldier in the 
republican service, and the hero of the 
piece, is very creditable to the writer. 
The Spy, himself, is an unfortunate pedlar, 
who enjoys the perfect confidence of 
Washington, and acts under his’ sole di- 
rection, and who narrowly escapes being 
put to death by his own friends. 
Mr. Peter NicHoLson has completed 
his popular course of mathematics for 
purposes of education, by the publication 
of: his Key. This volume contains the 
solutions worked at length to above one 
thousand questions in every branch of 
mathematical science, and is therefore a 
treasure above all price to the teacher 
and private student. For the ability with 
which the task is executed, we need only 
quote the name of the ingenious and la- 
borious author. 
Of the Errors of Ecstasie; a Dramatic 
Poem, with other Pieces, by GEorGE 
DARLEY; we can scarcely speak in too 
seyere terms of censure, inasmuch as it 
discovers a total disregard to the usual 
established rules of poetic style and ver- 
sification, and is destitute of the least pos- 
sible share of reason and common sense, 
some portion of which must still be re- 
quired in poets. Itis wild and improbable 
to the last degree, apparently the offspring 
of opium or an inebriated dream, in which 
the poet far transcends every thing we 
have received from the moon-struck ima- 
ginations of Mr. Coleridge, or Dr. Laureat 
Sonthey’s visions themselves, These Iu- 
eubrations are composed of a woodland 
scene by moon-light, a mad mystic, who 
talks with the moon, and chops logic, 
theology, and metaphysics, by way of 
imitation, we suppose, of Shakespeare’s 
Wall and Moonshine, 
_ The Royal Exile, or Poetical Epistles. of 
Mary Queen of Scots, during her Captivity 
in England, with other original Poems; by 
a YOUNG LADy: is a publication which, 
though not highly creditable to her poe- 
fical talents, possesses sufficiently inter- 
esting and amusing matter in the notes and 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
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illustrations, with anecdotes and notices 
relating to the Queen’s lire and character, 
to. entitleit to some degree of notice. 
The work’ seems to contain a good deal of 
antiquarian reseanch, together with de- 
scriptions of English and Scottish cha- 
racters, scenery, aud places, compara- 
tively little known to the general readei, 
For the poetry of the Epistles themselves, 
coutaining a narrative of the Queen’s life 
and adventures, we have very Jittle that is 
flattering to says 
The Pleasures of Fancy, a Poem, in two 
Parts; we consider as a very pleasing and 
successful etfort of the author’s muse, in 
emulation of the Pleasures of Hope and 
Memory, to neither of which poems it is 
greatly inferior. It displays a degree of ori- 
ginality, and evident signs of power, both 
in sentiment and versification, far superior 
to most of the secondary poets we have 
lately read; and we are sorry that our 
limits will not at present permit us to do 
more than recommend it to the attention 
of our readers. 
Odofriede, the Outcast, an American 
dramatic poem, lately published at New 
York, modelled upon the “‘ Manfred,” and 
other still wilder pieces of Lord Byron, 
is an attempt, displaying indisputable 
proofs of poetic power. It is from the 
pen of B, H. Jupau, a young poet, not 
more than eighteen years of age; and, 
though strangely defective, considered as 
a regular and complete performance, 
abounding in false sentiment and exagge- 
rated character, yet there are individual 
passages full of richness of fancy and poetic 
diction, which go far to redeem the ge- 
neral failure of the piece. Of a very sin- 
gular and unequal character, and of too 
misanthropic a cast to be at all probable 
or pleasing, it still holds out a proof of the 
existence of real transatlantic genius, and 
an earnest of future excellence. From 
this, and other ‘¢specimens of American 
poets,” lately collected and published in 
this country, we feel bound to entertain a 
higher opinion of the “ Backwood Muses,” 
than we had hitherto supposed their due. 
They are already advancing superior pre- 
tensions, and deservedly rising in-our esti- 
mation, as far as, they have attracted our 
notice, which of late seems to have been 
more liberally afforded them. 
Another volume of BURCKHARDT’s 
Travels. is now, published, and we under- 
stand there are materials still remaining 
sufficient for two volumes more. Jt con- 
tains his Travels in Syria and the Holy 
Land, in which, especially in the iatter, 
he seems to have made many discoveries, 
and settled many disputed questions re- 
specting those countries. ‘This volume 
contains five different tours, principally 
performed between 1810 and 1812. The 
last, which was directed to the peninsula 
of Mount Sinai, took place so late as ASG, 
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