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of fentiment; an eafy flow of verfification, 
and a chafte, but luxuriant imagery :. 
the * Lines found in 2 Bower facing the 
South,’ and the ‘ Stanzas written for the 
Blind Afylum, at Liverpool,’ are pecu- 
liarly f{weet. The author of ‘Lyric 
Poems” is alfo entitled to very confider- 
able praife. An ‘ Elegy to the Memory 
of che Rev. William Mafon,’” is folemn, 
dignified, and pathetic. The “ College” 
is a.moft dull fatire; and Peter Pindar’s 
“ Ode to the Liverymen of London,” 
not above mediocrity... ‘Walter and 
William” is faid to be tranflated from 
the original of Richard Coeur de Lion: 
it reads much more like a mangled tranf- 
lation from Biirger’s Leonora. The 
*« Purfuits of Literature’ are now com- 
pleted, in four parts: a work burdened 
with fuch Jearned lumber, and difgraced 
with fuch clumfy and malignant raillery, 
does not often appear. Dr. Tytler’s 
«“ Tranilation from Scevole de St. Mar- 
the’s Psdotrophia,” is refpeétably exe- 
cuted. Mrs. Charlotte Smith’s ‘ Elegiac 
Sonnets’ are many of them beautiful; 
but the monotony of everlafting forrow 
grows tirefome to the ear, The “ Sea- 
ide,” by Mr. Simkin Slenderwit, is 
not a contemptible imitation of the New 
-Bath Guide. The « Firft Flights” of 
Mr. Heyrick—are his laft! This accom. 
plifhed young man was gathered unto his 
fathers, while yer the proof-{heets were 
in his hands of thefe poems, which breathe 
a warm and affectionate dilpofition. Mr, 
Sharpe, late of Oxford, has publithed a 
poem, intitled, the ‘* Church,” of much 
merit: perhaps the fobernefs and dignity 
of blank verfe render it a good vehicle for 
fatire and ridicule.: it is Tom. Thumb ia 
tragedy ; the contraft is ftriking and iudi- 
crous. Mr. Jackfon’s “ Reign of Li- 
berty’’ is, we fear, more diftant- than he 
imagines ; he has depicted it in. glowing 
colours. Mr.. Bidlake’s “ Country Par- 
fon” is more remarkable for accuracy of 
defcription, than brilliancy of poetical 
imagery. In two volumes of * Select 
Epigrams,’’ it would be hard, indeed, if 
none of them were good : the colle¢ction, 
however, is, on the whole, fprightly and 
judicious. The profeffor of poetry in the 
-univerfity of Oxford, is publifhing, in 
monthly numbers, a fet of ‘ Lectures, 
fhowing the, feveral fources of that plea- 
fure which the human, mind receives 
from Poetry.” Thofe which have already 
appeared are. fo exceflively trifling 
and fuperficial, that Dr. Hurdis will 
difcredit his office ifhe does nor fpeedily 
amend. Mr. Donoghue’s “ Juvenile 
Effays on Poetry,” will be criticifed with 
candour, by every man of feeling, who is 
informed they were written under the 
fevere prefluie of poverty. Mr. Faw- 
cett, whofe pulpit elocution is fo juftly | 
celebrated, has publifhed a volume of 
“‘ Poems :’’ as may be expected, the lan- 
guage is elegant, and the imagery rich. 
Mr. Gorton’s “ Negro Suicide,” though 
far from a faultlefs production, is not 
deftitute of poetical merit. Mr. Smith’s 
“Poems,” are many of them in the 
Scottifh dialeét, and are by no means un- 
worthy imitations of poor Burns. | 
THE DRAMA. 
The author of that animated, but moft 
feductive and dangerous novel, the Monk, 
Mr. Lewis, has tranflated Schiller’s tra- 
gedy of Cabal and Love, which he has 
chofen .to~call the “ Minifter,” that it 
may not be confounded with a mangled 
and feeble tranflation, which appear:d 
fome time ago; and, like the origina’, 
was entitled Cabal and Love. Mr. 
Lewis has done juftice to his author: his 
tranflation is faithful, elegant, and ener- 
getic. Mr. Boaden is indebted to the 
Jaft and very popular production of Mrs. 
Radcliffe, for the foundation of a play, 
which he has intitled the “ Italian 
Monk :” although the latter cannot be 
faid to excite fuch ftrong and terrible in- 
tereft as the original, it does credit to the 
dramatift. Mr. Boaden has deviated 
from the romance, in reclaiming the cha- 
ra€ter of Schedoni, and reftoring him to 
domeftic happinefs: the fcene of this 
monk’s death, in the original, if fuccefl-. 
fully copied, might have been too tragicab. 
for the ftazge.. Mr. Rough’s ** Lorenzine 
di Medici” is fomewhat too tame to be 
interefling. Mr. Morton’s ‘Cure for 
the Heart-Ache;”’ Mr. Revnolds’s 
“Will; Mr. Smith’s ‘ Cottage ;” and 
feveral other dramatic pieces, have had a 
fhort-lived approbation in the galleries of 
a theatre. Mirs. Inchbald’s “ Wives as 
they Were,” is to be felected from the 
mafs of plays, as a correct and elegant, 
if nota very animated performance. The © 
poetry in Mr. Birch’s ‘ Smuggiers,”” ts 
better than mufical dramas  ufually 
afford. 
NOVELS AND ROMANCES, 
At this time: of the yeat, in the very 
depth of winter, tet the grave Dons fay 
“what. they will, are often entertaining 
companions in a fire-fide circle. Mr, 
Holcroft has publithed the three conclud- 
ing volumes of “ The Adventures of 
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