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«© They criticise, and kill, and damn, and fight in 
A manly style—they set up such a clatter, 
It sounds like drumsticks struck upon a platter.” 
So that it is clear the blue-stockings have 
been at him, also; and yet he will write, 
and continue to be praised (by himself?) 
for— 
««°Gad, I don’t fear their blus-ter-ing and raving.” — 
«© Take them allin all, or by the quire.”— 
We bring tliese two lines together, because 
they prove that Mr. B. can make as good 
verses with nine syllables as with ten; and 
we will add that also which rhymes with 
the latter of these, as containing a just esti- 
mate of the author’s own poems. 
‘* They’re only fit to put behind the fire.” 
The Cigar. 2 vols. 16mo.—Multum in 
parvo. Fun in many a whiff of verse and 
prose, which may give a zest to the pipe, 
or may alternate with the glass, and’ furnish 
agreeable interludes to those who do not 
like mere dry smoking, Here are anecdote 
and dialogue, song and tale—always brief, 
‘and copiously diversified ; and the travel- 
ler, with his twist of Indian weed in his 
mouth, may carry one of them in his hand, 
if he lack a companion to talk with on the 
road, or clap a volume, for meet occasion, 
in each pocket, without feeling their weight 
‘as a clog upon his motions. 
Gratitude, a Poetical Essay ; with other 
Poems and Translations, by Capt. FEtrx 
M‘Donoven, Author of “ The Hermit in 
London,” “ The Hermit in the Country,” 
“The Hermit Abroad,” “The Highlanders,” 
and other popular Works, 12mo.—Criticism 
has little.to object against this little volume, 
either in matter or manner; but we cannot 
flatter Capt. M‘Donough that his verse 
will sustain the reputation of his prose. 
The following may be taken as a fair speci- 
men—only that we are not aware of any 
other such instance of grammatical solecism 
‘as occurs in the sixth of these lines. 
«© In riper years, when more observing man 
Views the creation’s rich extensive plan, 
Ascends the mountain, treads the enamell’d plain, 
Admires the cataract, or boundless main, 
Courts the cool shade of stately verdant trees, 
Pores o’er the brook, or pleasures inthe breeze, 
Inhales the sweets of aromatic flower, 
Given from its bosom to the sunny hour— 
Full of religious gratitude, he sighs, 
Inspir’d by thoughts which dwell beyond the skies, 
To holy ecstacy he’s forced to yield, 
And owns the God of nature, thus reveal’d.” 
—a ° 
FOREIGN LITERATURE, &c. 
GERMANY. 
An Historical Society has been formed 
at Francfort, whose object is to give to the 
public a complete collection: of German 
History. _M.de Koppe has published a 
Manual of German History. _M: de Rau- 
mer is expected to. publish the two last 
volumes of his History of the Emperors of 
the House of Suabia.. The second volume 
of a work, entitled, Deutsches Land und 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
-by Messrs. Guldmuths and Jacobi. 
_ Signature. 
[Oct. I. 
Deutsches Volk; or, Germany and the 
German People, has just been published 
The 
first has taken the graphical part, the other 
the historical, which contains many disser- 
tations on the private life, manners, and 
customs of the people; and on the arts, 
sciences, religion, language, and civil regu- 
lations: it is embellished with portraits, 
charts and maps. The first volume ofano- 
ther work has also just appeared, entitled, 
Altere Geschichte der Teutochen—The first 
Ages of German History. The author pro- 
poses to furnish three more, to be continued 
up to the establishment of the German 
kingdom in 843. 
ITALY. 
Quadro des principali popoli antichite.— 
A description of primcipal antient nations, 
with a geographical chart, by the Cheva- 
lier Giovanni Tamascia, is a selection of 
remarks on the different nations prior to 
the fall of the Western Empire, taken prin- 
cipally from the Greek and Latin classies, 
but avoiding the fables, and seeking only 
to present the most important and best sub- 
stantiated facts. 
RUSSIA. 
Bibliographic Leaves.—Such is the title 
of a Journal published inthe Russian Jan- 
guage, intended to form a complete chronolo- 
gical repertory of modern national literature. 
It consists of one printed sheet, which ap- ~ 
pears twice or three times a month, con- 
taining short notices and criticisms of new 
works,societies and the arts,and of discoveries 
in history and philology ; also, biographical 
sketches of the patrons of literature, and of 
literary men and artists. Each contributor 
may demand ten copies of the sheet which 
contains his work. The numbers already 
published contain notices of the periodical 
works published in Russia, of which there 
appear to be a great many, and composed 
in almost all the languages of Europe. 
DENMARK. 
Greve Johan Fredric Struensee, &c.— 
History of Count John Frederic Struensee, 
condemned to death in 1772 for High Trea- 
son, and of his ministry. —Though the me- 
mory of Count Struensee has long been 
reestablished in public opinion, he has not 
till now found an impartial historian. The 
present memoirs seem as impartial and full 
as could be consistent with the’ desire of 
not injuring those men of merit, now alive, 
whose relations may have taken part in the 
transactions alluded to. The author relates, 
that the unfortunate Queen Caroline Ma- 
tilda, had long refused to sign certain depo- 
sitions; but that, in fine, believing it to be 
the only means of saving the life of Struensee, 
she consented. After tracing the first five 
letters, perceiving the minister, Schack- 
Rathlau, looking at her with a smile of 
triumph, she threw down the pen and faint- 
ed,’ and the minister, with the utmost 
coolness, took up the pen and finished the 
THEATRICAL 
