460 Reviews. 
de Société must be to acertain extent a poet, but to excel . 
in such composition, he must also be a thorough man of 
the world, and a careful observer of character. Such a 
man was Thackeray, the last of our poets of Vers de Société. 
We were somewhat surprised at not finding any of his 
verses in the book before us, but we understand that the 
publishers of his works keep a jealous watch over the copy- 
right, and have declined to furnish any extracts for the 
Lyra Elegantiarum. This volume has afforded us so much 
pleasure, and recalled to us so many pleasing lines with 
respect to which our memory had become somewhat heavy, 
that we cannot part from it without indulging the hope of 
being enabled to return to it at no distant day. 
Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Litera- 
ture of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to 
the Restoration, By W. CAREW HAZLITT, Barrister-at- 
Law. Part 1... Pp..$2.. vo, . London+.john Russel 
Smith. 1867. 
WE do not know of any book which is so calculated to 
supply a want long felt by students in the literary lore of 
this country as the one before us. Up to the present time 
we have had several Bibliographies given to us, but in all 
of them there are inaccuracies, which at times are quite 
glaring ; to remedy this we should think is Mr. Hazlitt’s 
endeavour; and we find that in this first part, so far as it 
goes, we have not only a first-class compendium of all 
older works, but titles of hitherto unknown works copied 
from the books themselves, showing an amount of research, 
energy, and labour, that only a lover of literature would 
undertake. Inthe preface to the work the author says :— 
“In the preparaiuon of this work, I have had two classes of 
difficulty to contend with, and, so far as I cculd, conquer. One 
was the necessity of hunting out editions of books and tracts 
which former bibliographers had neglected to notice. and which I 
believed or expected to exist; and the second difficulty was the 
weeding out of imaginary editions mentioned by Warton and his 
successors. | 
“My success in beth these departments has been even beyond 
my expectations. I have been enabled to expunge impressions of 
volumes which certainly never had being, and to incorporate, on 
the contrary, a large number of impressions of which our elder 
antiquaries-had no knowledge. ‘The gain has been double.” 
Upon going still further into its pages, we feel convinced 
