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his poem he is content 5 he will call for a 
divifion, and-thinks he fhall count a ma- 
jority. We do not pretend to afcertain the 
number of men of genius in England— 
certainly we fhould reckon the prefent 
author as one; but an arrogance fo con- 
temptuous is infufferable, even in a man 
~of genius. 
The ftory of ‘ Lodon and Miranda,” 
a poem, by ROMAINE JOSEPH THORN, 
is the moft common place that can well be 
imagined, and is tedioufly and heavily 
dragged through four thoutand lines. If 
it be true that ‘‘ they were written in 
four months,’ we think Mr. Thorn 
‘< {pared too many hours from bufinefs.”’ 
<¢ Poems by Epwarp ATKYNS 
Bray,’ contains fome ballads, which, 
though they imitate too clofely other 
poets, particularly Burger, are yet en- 
titled to much praife.. 
A new edition has appeared, with ma- 
ny additional notes, of “ Mr. Drum- 
MOND’s Tranfiations of the Satires of 
~ Perfius.”’ 
Mr. Mureny has publifhed an imita- 
ticn of the thirteenth Satire of Juvenal, 
of Con, 
{cience,’’ which will not detraét from his 
reputation. : 
Mr. SourHey has publifhed the firt 
yolume of a work, which, uncerthe title 
of the “ Annual Anthclogy,” is defign- 
ed to contain fugitive pieces of poetry, 
which the authors not thinking proper to 
publith feparately, wilh thus to prefent to 
the public. We fcarcely ever faw a col- 
le€tion of this Kind fo unequal in merit as 
the one before us. The ‘volume com- 
mences with an ode full cf originality, 
Pindaric fablimity, and, it muft be added, 
obfcurity. We do not think Mr. Southey 
has increafed his reputation by his own 
pieces, which appear in this colleétion ; 
he feems to have prefented us with the 
emptyings of his port-folio. THe Mock 
Elegies of Mr. SHUFFLEBOTTOM are 
maiter-pieces in their way; we recolleét 
ta have been highly delighted with them 
when they appeared, many months ago, 
inthe Morning Pot. Mrs. Opre’s little 
poems are fimple and elegant. We were 
much pleafed with the Addrefs to Twi- 
light. Of the other pieces contained in 
this volame we can only fay, that they 
had better have remained in their authors’ 
i If Mr. Southey fhouid continue 
this work, we heg leave to remind him 
that his duty isto cull fewer. _ 
Perer Prnpar, by the publication 
of his * Nil admirari,’” has given anotber 
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proof-that an author may write too much 
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Ppolifhed and 
Retrofpeét of Domefiic Literature... Novels and Romances. 
for his reputation. The apparently fin- 
cere piety_and good intentions of Mrs, 
Hannah More ought to be facred from the 
{currilous attack of fo licentious a writer. 
Befides the poems we have noticed, there 
are the following :—*‘ Original Poems, by 
the Rev. B. THompson :” “ Albio Hi- 
bernia, or the IfleofErin,” by John Jofeph 
Stockdale, junior; and “* Four oceafional 
Poems,’’ by the Rev. L. Halleran. None of 
thefe appear to us to rife above mediocrity, 
_ NOVELS AND ROMANCES. 
“The Suiterings of the Family of Or- 
tenberg ”’ has been tranflated by the Rey. 
P. WILL, from the German of Kotze- 
bue, and is an extremely interefting and 
pathetic tale. Itaboundsin thofe delicate 
ftrokes of feeling which do fo much ho- 
nour to the heart of Kotzebue: it de- 
_ {cribes with confiderable humour the hypo- 
crify of Mrs. Xantippenthal, and the mean- 
nefs and fenfual exceffes of fome German - 
fanatics. The character ef Captain 
Sturm is admirably drawn and fupported; 
and, without being a fervile imitation, 
brought. ftrongly to our recolleétion our 
old friend Uncle Toby. Simce reading 
Robinfon Crufoe, in our juvenile days, we 
donot recolleét to have been fo interéfted 
in any adventures as in thofe of Nicholas 
Ortenberg. The uncertainty concerning 
the fate of the elder Ortenberg’ is admi- 
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rably kept up to the end. ~ Upon the 
whole, we can recommend this as the beft 
of Kotzebuc’s novels which we have yet_ 
feen tranflated. 
We cannot fpeak highly 
of the tranflation, which is frequently 
coarfe and vulgar: 
we happen 
the original, which 
to have read, 1s remarkably 
We regard the 
{pinning out of Kotzebue’s two volumes 
into three as an impofition on the Englifh 
public. 
‘© Jidegerte, Queen of Norway,” is 
another work of the fame author: it Is 
a romance illufrative of the chivalrous 
bravery of the northern nations, tnter- 
fperfed with the doétrines of the Gothic 
.] 
e:ieoant. 
mythology, and written in the ftyle of 
Offian. Mr. THompson, the tranilator, 
has done jufticé to his ‘original. Mr. 
Thompfon has allo prefented the public- 
with a {pirited tranflation of a very mere 
ry ftory, called “ The Ring, or the Mer-' 
\ry Wives of Madrid.” i 
“ The Family of Halden” 1s a highly 
interefting novel, tranflated from (the 
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German of Auguftus la Fontaine. “Lhe 
tranflator tells us in his preface, that the 
author 
German Fielding; we think 
more refembles Goldfmith. Pheré isa 
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