1824.] Retro spective 
as a translator of Juvenal and Persius 
than as the author of “the Marriage 
of the Arts;” with which, however, we 
thank the reviewer for bringing us 
acquainted by a shorter road than the 
perusal of the work itself, for which, in 
its entireness, we suspect we should 
have little inclination. 
The eighth articie is Memoires sur 
? Ancienne Chivalrie, considerée come un 
etablissement politique et militaire, par 
M. de la Curne de Sainte Palaye, &e. 
1759. This is an interesting article, 
which brings before us, by well- 
selected extracts, the most striking 
features of the ages and institutions to 
which it refers, and connects them to- 
gether with such reflections and ani- 
madversions, as show that the writer is 
habituated to the perusal of history 
with a philosophic eye. The age of 
chivalry loses some of its gloss and 
splendour, as we follow this historian; 
but who, in the present day; expects 
to find the chivalry of romance rea- 
lized in the pages of authentic history? 
The ninth article contains Alazono- 
Masiix, or the Character of a Cockney, in 
a satirical Poem, dedicated (as a New- 
Year's gift) to the Apprentices of Lon- 
don; by Junius Anonymus, a London 
Apprentice, 1651. 
Capiat gui eapere potest. 
The cockneys eat their breakfasts in their beds, 
And spend the day in dressing of their heads; 
Tho’ God, in mercy, may do much to save them, 
Yet what.a case are they in that shall have them ? 
This motto sufficiently shows the kind 
of treatment the cockneys of his day 
{the females, in particular,) received 
from this renegade apprentice. The 
reviewer has collected several spirited 
and amusing passages from this lam- 
poon; for some of which, particularly 
the female cockney’s progress from 
spinsterhood to wifehood, we wish we 
could find space; but ‘those who are 
induced (concludes he) to peruse the 
character of a cockney, by the hope of 
meeting with a repetition of the enter- 
tainment presented under similar titles, 
will be disappointed: it contains some 
good passages in epigrammatic coup- 
lets, and its descriptions are respec- 
table ; but let the renovators beware. 
We have refrained from minutely 
investigating its merits, wishing to 
keep our antiquarianism as distinet as 
possible from criticism.” 
The, tenth article is an analytical 
abstract of Bishop Wilkins’s Discovery 
Review, No. 16. 
519 
of a New World, or a Discourse tending 
to prove that it is probable there may be 
another Habitable World in the Moon, 
witha Discourse concerning. the possi- 
bility of a Passage thither ; in exposing 
the absurdity of which, the reviewer 
takes a fair opportunity of indulging 
an occasional smile at some of the 
visionary projects of the present day, 
But the chief glory of the present 
Number of this Review,—the longest 
and the best,—is the concluding 
article on The Memoirs of the Hon. Sir 
John Reresby, bart. and last Governor of 
York, containing several private and 
remarkable Transactions, from the Resto- 
ration to the Revolution inclusively ;—a 
work so much the more valuable, as 
it evidently appears never to have 
been composed with any reference to 
publication, and which presents an in- 
structive picture of the interior of 
‘courts and cabinets, and the nature of 
that spurious loyalty which actuates so 
frequently the zealous supporters of 
their measures; while, at the same 
time, it throws additional light on the 
character and views of that profligate 
and selfish hypocrite, Charles the 
Second; whose high-vaunted good 
nature, even, appears to have been 
nothing more than a callous indiffe- 
rence to every thing but the indulgence 
of his own merry indolence and volup- 
tuousness ; and who, for any principles 
of sympathy or commiseration that en- 
tered into his composition, might have 
been as tyrannical in infliction as in 
the objects of his political intrigues, if 
he could have been so without inter- 
ruption to his pleasure, or discompo- 
sure to the voluptuous quietude of his 
mind. The copious extragts given 
from the work itself are equally enter- 
taining and instructive, But the most 
valuable part of the article is that high 
and liberal strain of manly and consti- 
tutional patriotism which breathes 
through the ample and. eloquent ani- 
madyversions of the reviewer. 'T'o quote 
brief and detached passages from these 
animadversions, at once so coherent, 
so spirited, and so temperate, would be 
alike injurious and unsatisfactory, and 
for ample extract we have not space; 
but we recommend the perusal of the 
article itself to every reader who has 
a heart that can be warmed by an ho- 
nest and enlightened zeal for the liber- 
ties of his country and of mankind. 
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