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SEWELL’S POEMS.—-M°CREEDY’S PRESSs—SEYMOUR’S POWERS OF IMAGINATION. SOL 
what has long been a desideratum in the 
language. France still boasts the far 
inferior and almost antiquated works of 
J. B. Rousseau, in a similar walk ; and it 
is not probable, that the British public 
will value less highly this, the first offer- 
ing, and dying legacy of humble worth 
and bashful genius. 
Arr. XLV. Poems, by Mrs. G. Sewexr, Relict of the late Rev. George Sewell, Rector 
of Byefieet, Surrey. 
THIS elegant little volume, which 
appears to be patronized by a numerous 
and very splendid list of subscribers, con- 
sists of short miscellaneous pieces, exhi- 
biting just sentiments in easy verse. High 
Arr. XLVI. The Press; a Poem, payee as a Specimen of Typography. 
iverpool. 
M‘CrekEry, 
THE singular humility of this title. 
page cannot fail to excite the curiosity 
of our readers, who will ask with asto- 
nishment, what kind of poet he can be, 
-who submits his numbers to the public 
eye, merely for the purpose of affording 
an opportunity of display, to the mecha- 
nical skill of the printer. Their surprize 
will be diminished on learning that, in this 
instance, the poet and printer are one 
and the same person, and that the au- 
thor of “ The Press,”’ is the very man 
who, in his humbler capacity, has been 
instrumental in diffusing through the 
nation the rich intellectual stores of a 
Currie, a Roscoe, a Smythe, and a 
Shepherd. Jt is not wonderful that Mr. 
M‘Creery, animated by the encourage- 
ment of such patrons, should feel anxi- 
ous to acquire for thé Liverpool press, 
a reputation for beauty and correctness 
of workmanship hitherto confined to 
those of the metropolis. 
In the laudable pursuit of excellence 
in his art, our poetical printer engaged 
in a course of laborious and expensive 
experiments, by means of which he has 
at length succeeded in preparing an ink 
which, without fatiguing the eye by a 
too glaring black, gratifies it by a mel- 
low richness of tint never before attained. 
His presswork is likewise remarkable for 
its smoothness and evenness of colour- 
ing, though the common, not the French, 
press, has been employed. The type, 
which is the same used by Bulmer, in 
Boydell’s splendid Shakspeare, is an ex- 
tremely good one, formed on the Bas- 
Art. XLVII: The Powers of Imagination; a Poem, in three Parts. 
12mo., pp. 283. 
poetic fancy, glowing diction, rich and 
varied harmony are of such rare occur- 
rénce, that their absence ought no more 
to excite disappointment, than the not 
finding pearls in every oyster. 
By Joux 
Thin quarto. 
kerville model, though inferior to the 
delicate fineness of Figgins’s best letter. 
‘This pattern work is likewise adorned 
by emblematical wooden cuts of supe- 
rior excellence. 
A clear and satisfactory statement of 
the controversy respecting the origin of 
printing is subjoined to the poem; as 
likewise, a somewhat violent declama- 
tion against the paper-taxes, and the 
act by the which a printer is obliged to 
subscribe his name at the beginning and 
end of every work. The intentions of 
the legislature, in framing this regula. 
tion, might perhaps afford cause ‘for re- 
prehension; but certainly the obligation 
of marking their works has enabled this 
class of artizans, to make known to the 
world in general, heir names and re- 
spective merits, with which only authors 
and booksellers were previously ac- 
quainted. Mr. M‘Creery is not a man 
to be ashamed of working under the 
public eye, as his present production 
sufficiently evinces, nor ought he, there- 
fore, to be the first to exclaim against 
the revival of a practice, universal 
among theearly andeminent printers, and 
alone capable of again elevating that into 
a liberal art, which, for some time past, 
has sunk into a mere mechanical trade. 
‘The sentiments of our author are free 
and manly ; his verse is smooth and cor- 
rect, and certainly reflects honour on 
one whose opportunities for the cultiva- 
tion of literature must have been snatch- 
ed, with haste and difficulty, from more 
important and lucrative avocations. 
Written at the 
» Age of Sixteen. By Miss Cuarrotre Seymour. 4to. pp. 130. 
THIS poem possesses three irresisti- 
ble claims to be. indulgently reviewed, 
and the lovely portrait which is prefixed: 
at the same time we are bound not to 
namely, the youth and sex of the author, violate our implied engagement with the 
