290 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITEUATUKK. 



Mountain Melodies, &c. &c. By Thomas Eagles. Whittaker and 

 Co. 1835. 



Mr. Eagles is not unknown to us as a poet of fancy and imagination. IIi» 

 volume of" Mountain Melodies,"' will add to his reputation, as a writer of poetry. 

 This handsome tome is dedicated to Sir Joiin Tobm, in a spirit that does credit 

 to the author's sense — favours conferred — of obligations unrequited. We have 

 perused most of the pieces w ith gratification, if not delight. We select the follow- 

 ing, by vyay of extract : — 



MOKNINC. 



The morning breaks ! 



And the green meadows, bright with blushing flowers. 



Emit their rich perfume. The early crows, 



With slow and steady pace, leave their high nests, 



And for their young ones cater. The mushroom^, 



Glist'ning with dew, peep from their grassy beds. 



And the loud sky-lark wings its way to heaven. 



Rich woodbines, thro' hawtliorn hedges twining, 



DitTuse their sweetness on the gentle breeze ; 



And ever and anon the hunter's horn 



Comes riding on the blast from distant hills. 



O ! beauteous, lovely Morning ! 



The Tin Trumpet ; or, Heads and Tales for the Wise and Waggish : 

 to which are added. Poetical Selections. By the late Paul Chat- 

 field, M.D. Edited by Jefferson Saunders, Esq. Whittaker and 

 Co. pp. 575. 



A VERY eccentric, but enterla'ning work, consisting of whims and oddities- — wise 

 saws, and a few modern instances — systematically scattered over 550 pages, oi; 

 thereabouts. 



Fisher's Juvenile Scrap-Book, for 1836. Edited by Bernard Barton. 

 Fisher, Son, and Co. 



TpoUGH last of all the annuals, not the least interesting. Bernard Barton will 

 do well to be earlier in the field next year. We like the plan of the Juvenile 

 Scrap-Book. The matter is unexceptionable. The plates are not of the highest 

 order. 



Six Months of a Newfoundland Missionary Journal, July to August, 

 1835, Smith, Elder, and Co. pp. 264. 



A WORK of peculiar interest, and one, too, which will, we think, be acceptable to 

 the Christian world. The various subjects treated of are of the first importance to 

 missionaries ; and are faith''ully brought before us by a writer of no common pre- 

 tensions. We cannot hesitate, therefore, to recommend the attentive perusal of 

 this useful publication. 



First Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, for England and 

 Wales. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, pp. 406. 



This highly elaborate and pains-taking compilation has just made its appearance ; 

 and, from what v\e have been enabled to deduce from die contents, comrnands 

 universal perusal, and the most patient investigation of the facts set forth in its 

 crowded pages. 



