a 
Se 452 Monthly Review of Literature, 
above variety just as well as becf and bread : 
one thing correcting the qualities of another, 
in'a manner we don’t understand.” Nay we 
are told, that “ provided you keep within 
the bounds of moderation on the whole— 
even this [this moderation] the stomach 
won't object to, provided you don’t repeat 
these excesses very often.” The excesses of 
moderation!!!— Purge, purge, purge, use 
vegetable purges freely—that is all that 
is requisite. Have you asthma, short 
breath, (page 35)—“ purging will give 
you relief; and, to complete the cure, 
continue to purge till you have quite freed 
the system of ‘ the serosity or corrupt hu- 
mours with which the blood is impreg- 
nated.”” Are youtroubled with the dis- 
(June hy 
of the first three cantos: and though, as 
critics, we noticed some slight failings (and 
attributed one which, we ought to have 
perceived, was an error, not of the trans- 
lator, but of the press), we gaye praise te 
Signor Sorelli’s truth and fidelity of trans- 
lation, and looked forward with pleasure to 
the continuance of his work: nor have we 
been disappointed. The present cantos 
have the same faithful representation of the ; 
original ; and though we still could wish for 
less dilation, we must acknowledge our- 
selyes highly delighted by their perusal. 
The Italian language is so peculiarly adapted 
to the expression of soft and tender passages, 
such as abound in these two cantos [books] 
of the original, that, admirers as we are of 
——-_- 
ease of “ bashfulness,”’ (pp. 128 to 131)— 
does “ the youth or girl feel an inward 
want—something that does not play right- 
ly?” or are you, on the contrary, over-for- 
ward and pert ?—* purging will act bene- 
ficially in both cases. To the bashful it 
will impart more energy and life, by disen- 
cumbering the heart; and to the over-for- 
ward it will give composure and sedateness, 
by evacuating the acrimonious humours,” 
&e. Nay, if Lord Byron (p. 156, &c.) in- 
stead of stinting his sustenance [See the 
grave authority of those book - making 
quacks, the Dallases, &e.] to “a hard wine 
biscuit and a cup of tea,” had but purged 
freely, it would have improved his morals, 
“* rectified his morbid misanthropical hu- 
mours, allayed his irritability, and recon- 
ciled him with mankind.”’ His “ genius 
would have expanded ;”’ and he would have 
been alive and merry at this time; and 
writing the most splendidly good-natured 
poems imaginable.—After all this impor- 
tant information, we trust that none of our 
readers will neglect to be plentifully sup- 
plied, at all times, with rhubarb, jalap, 
senna, &c. &e. 
Practical Chemical Mineralogy. By FRer- 
DERICK JOYCE, Operative C/emist. 12mo. 
—This work, regarded as a mere compila- 
tion; may be useful to those who haye 
rather a taste for, or are desirous of being 
initiated, in some degree, into the scientific 
objects it professes to have in view, than 
any particular depth of present information 
concerning them, or any anxiety for very 
deep research: But, upon the whole, it 
would, perhaps, not be very unfair to con- 
sider it rather as an advertisement for the 
shop and laboratory of the operative che- 
mist whose name appears in the title- 
page, than as a work devoted to the pur- 
poses of science, and the genera] informa- 
tion of the public. 
Ii Paradiso Perduto, di Signor G. SORELLI. 
We are glad to perceive, by the appearance 
of the fourth and fifth cantos of Z/ Paradiso 
Perduto, that. Signor Sorelli is not dismayed, 
by the length and difficulty of the under- 
taking, from prosecuting his translation 
from’ our immortal bard. We noticed, in 
our number for January last, the appearance 
our own native bard, and feeling, as we do, 
all his original beauties, we are yet obliged to 
acknowledge, that we prefer reading pas- 
sages of this kind in the harmonic softness 
of the Italian idiom. 
In 
excuse for such predilection, we will 
select a few passages which appear to us to 
justify it; and refer our readers to some 
others, which are too long for insertion 
here. 
Witness, especially, the description 
of our first parents in Paradise, and the 
dialogues between them in the fourth book 
—particularly these lines of Eve’s reply to 
Adam, beginning in the original, | 
** But neither breath of morn,” &c. 
Which are thus translated :— 
“6 
And 
book 
Eve 
And 
Ma non I’auretta che’l mattino spira 
Quando sorgendo aggiungongli delizia 
I primi desti augelli: e non il sole 
Che nuovo irradia queste piaggie amene : 
Non erba, 0 frutto, 6 fior que di rugiada 
E fulgido; non I’aer dopo la piova 
Olente: 6 la gioconda amica sera: 
Non coll’ augel dalle solenni note 
Queta la notte: non l’andar spaziando 
Della luna al chiaror; né delle stelle 
Emmi il rifulger senza di te soave.” 
in. the commencement of the fifth 
, this passage, in which Adam awakens 
Svegliati, o sposa, di celesti doni 
Dopo ogni altro paratasi a mi innanzi 
Dono piu bello, ’ultimo, e’! migliore, 
Sorgi, delizia mia sempre novella, 
Gia ’| mattino rosseggia, e ne richiama 
Il fresco campo: i primi albeggiamenti 
Passan negletti, né da noi si osserva 
In qual maniera germinin le culte 
Nostre piante, 0 de cedri infiori il bosco, 
Che da canna balsamica si gocci 
O dalla mirra, come i suoi colori 
Dipinga Ja natura, e come vada 
L’ape dal fior dolce licor libando.” 
also the speech immediately following, 
in which Eye relates her dream, but for 
which we can only refer our readers to the 
book itself. But, still more especially, we 
must not forget to refer them to Signor 
Sorelli’s version of that most beautiful, 
perhaps, 
Mor 
of all Milton’s beauties, the 
ning Hymn of Adam and Eve—from 
which we know not how to select a part, 
and 
yet cannot give insertion to the whole. 
ETS, @ 
