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editor of Holbein’s Portraits of the Court 
of Henry VIII, from Queen Elizabeth’s 
Cabinet : this valuable publication con- 
tams various drawings of ,fubjects in 
anatomy and mechanics. The lovers of 
mufic will be highly gratified by Mr. 
KoittMan’s © Effay on Mufical Har- 
mony :’’ a work, in which the principles 
ef mufic are correétly explained and well 
iluftrated. 
CRITICISM. 
UnpeR the headot Criticifm we have 
to announce to our’readers, an elegant 
and fplendid' edition of ‘ Archimedes,” 
from the Clarendon Prefs, prepared by 
‘Torelli, of Verona; a proper compa- 
mion for the Oxford editions of Euclid 
and Apollonius. Mr. WakEFIFLD’s 
neat edition of ‘* Virgil,’ intended as a 
companion to his Horace, and his“ Lu- 
eretius,” a work on which the editor’s 
eminent talents for criticifm have beén 
exercifed with the utmoft diligence and 
acutenefs, and which will not fail to be 
highly acceptable to every claffical {cho- 
far : a learned and ingenious ‘ Effay on 
the Profodies of the Greek and Latin 
Languages,” in which the writer at- 
tempts to prove accent in the ancient 
languages to be analogous to thofe in the 
modern; and Mr. Vincent’s learned 
D ffertation,-entitled “ De Legione Mar- 
ana Quejio, intended to determine the 
true conftruction and difpefiticn of the 
Manlian Legion defcribed by Livy. 
POETRY. 
THE region of Parnaffus appears to 
have experienced the chillixg influence 
of afevere feaion: its plants have of late 
been, for the moft part, remarkably fee- 
ble and fickly. We could produce along 
hift of publications called Poems, but are 
at fome lo{s to find any original produc- 
tions of fuficient vigour to promife im- 
mortality. The public has been much 
amufed and gratitied by a conte forlire- 
rary fame among the feveral tranflators of 
Leonora, a wild and extravagant, but 
uncommonly interefting German ballad 
of BuRrGER. The conteft has been 
fupported with a confiderable degree of 
fpirit; and it would be injuftice to the 
competitors not to acknowledge that they 
are ali entitled to praife. The Port 
Laureat has the merit of giving an 
harmonious and elegant, but fomewhat 
lame and feeble, verfion of the original: 
Mr. STANLEY ’s performance, in its firft 
form, was tolerably fuccefsful ; but his 
alteration of the ftory, in his fecond 
edition, deftroys the poetic charaéter of 
the piece: Mr. SPENCER’s tranflation 
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is paraphraftic, but highly elegant and 
poetical, and, even without the exqut- 
fite defigns of Lapy Diana BEavu- 
CLERC, would have commanded admi- 
ration: but the firft prize, in this lite-’ 
rary competition, will, we believe, be 
awarded by the public voice to the ano-~ 
nymous tranflator, who entitles his ver- 
fion ‘* Ellenore, a ballad?’ the ftyle of 
the old Englith‘ballad certainly beft cor- 
refponds to the langutze, and fuits the 
{pirit of the original , and this tranflator 
has well known. how to make the mof 
of this advantage. 
Among original Poems, ‘* The Para- 
dife of Tafte,”’ by Mr. THOMson, au- 
thor of a poem entitled ** W.hift,” is a 
performance of confiderable merit: the 
writer takes a vifionary journey through 
the garden of beauty¥ the vale of pity, 
the houfe of ridicule, the mountain of 
fublimity, and the ifland of fancy ; and 
finds in each its appropriate bands of 
poets. No very niggardly portion of ap- 
.plaufe is due to Mr. FosBROOKE’S 
‘Economy cf Monaftic Life,”’ a perform- 
ance in which lively defeription and eafy 
verification are united with a faithful de- 
lincation of manners, and accompanied 
with entertaining information, in differ- 
tations and notes. Mr. BIDLAKE’s 
Poem, entitled ‘* The Sea,” is defcrip- 
tive and harmonious. Mrs. RoBinson’s 
‘© Sappho and Phacn, ina Series of legi- 
timate Sonnets,” is an elegent produc. 
tion, in which the varieties of Sappho’s 
pathons are expreffed with tendernels and 
harmony ; it js written with more correct 
tafte than fome of the authors former 
pieces. Mr. Merry’s “ Pains of Me- 
mory,’’ though not perfeétly accurate, 
or entirely free from the glitter of af- 
fected language, contains much impref~ 
five defcription. “ The Waes 0” War,” 
a {mall piece, in the Scottith dialeét, is 
written ina ftyle of elegant fimplicity, 
“ Bewfy,” a defcriptive Poem, though 
evidently a juvenile produétion, bears 
marks of lively fancy and clafheal tafte, 
A large volume of “ Poems,” chiefly 
dramatic, has been publithed, in Ireland, 
“by Mr. Boyp:” he poffeffes a con- 
fiderable command of elevated diétion 
and harmonious verfification, but has 
een unfortunate in the choice of. his 
fubjeéts, and fpreads out his conceptions - 
with tedious diffufenefs. Lady Tuite’s 
Poems contain juit and elegant fenti- 
ments, expreffed in eafy and flowing 
verfe. .Mr. Roprnson’s * Sketches in 
Verfe,” are the laboured efforts of a lover 
of the mules. Mr. HamMLEy’s Poems 
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