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Efq. Part Firft.” This is very fuperior 
to the trafh and ribaldry, which Peter has 
for fome time paft occafionally offered to 
the public infpection.s The ftory is 
founded on an adventure which occurred. 
to the author, in his voyage to Jamaica: 
it is told with a great deal of fimplicity 
and tendernefs. 
The Satires of Decimus Junius Juve- 
Nalis ; tranflated into Englifh Verfe, by 
W. Girrorp, Efq. with Notes and II- 
luftrations.”>. The author of the Baviad 
and the Meviad has done into Englifh 
the Satires of Juvenal, for the benefit of 
ladies and country-gentlemen ; he begins 
with giving us a long account of his own 
‘birth, parentage, and education, in which 
he exhibits a pifture of felf-importance, 
fuficiently flattering to himfelf, and dif- 
gufting to his readers : Mr. Gifford has 
on former occafions difplayed confiderable 
expertnefs in the ule of inveétive ; and 
he feems to have inferred his qualifica- 
tions as a tranflator of Juvenal from his 
urdifputed command of coarfe, vulgar, 
cand ill-matured expreffions. Alas the no- 
b’e indignation, the majeftic feverity of 
Juvenal are entirely loft! The Roman 
eagle is betrayed—the ill-flarred magic of 
Mr. Gifford ~~ 
r lulls the feathered- king 
' With ruffled plumes and flagging wing 5 ~ 
Quenched in dark clouds of flumber lie 
The terror of his beak and lightning | of 
his eye! Bini 
-€ Minftrelfy of the Scottifh Border ; 
confifting of Hiftoricaland Romantic Bal- 
lads, collected in the fouthern Counties of 
Scotland ; with a few of modern Date, 
founded upon local Tradition, in two 
Volumes.”?> Mr. ScoTtT, an eminent ad- 
vocate at the Scottifn bar, is the editor of 
_thefe interefting volumes: he has fearched 
for with great indafiry, and feleéted with 
great tafte, many compofitions which lay 
fcattered along the borders of Scotland. 
Each ballad is introduced by a prelimi- 
nary eflay, explanatory of the fubject ; 
and it is fucceeded by notes illuftrative cf 
whatever allufions it may contain to local 
circumftances, which were likely to have 
efcaped the Englifh reader. ‘The intro- 
duétion affurds’a fketch of Border-hiftory, 
from the decline’ of the Roman empire 
to the'era of the Union: the grand ob- 
ject of this work is to colle&t materials 
for the hiftory of Border-poetry, a fub- 
_ je& which is to be’ amply- difcuffed in a 
third and concluding volume. 
€ The School for Satire ; or, a Colle€tion 
ef Modern Satirical Poems, written du- 
 Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature—Poetry. 
ring the prefent Reign.” The annune 
ciation of fuch a collection is fufficient. 
Mrs. Opre_has publifhed an elegant 
little volumeof “Poems.” They difcover 
a great deal of tafe, and a great deal of 
feeling. ee ae ee hae 5 
“‘ Egypt ; a Poem, defcriptive of that 
Country and its Inhabitants ; written du-~ 
ring the late Campaign, by M. M. Crir- 
FORD, Efq. of the Twelfth, or Prince of 
Wales’s Light Dragoons.” What ftern 
and cold-hearted critic would not relax 
the feverity of his brow on the perufal of 
a pcem, written ‘ during the avacations 
of military duty, in a fmall tent on the 
fands of Egypt, amidft the orange groves 
of Rofetta, or on the tempeftuous bo- 
fom of the Mediterranean.” Mr. Clif-’ 
ford had no time to polifh his verfe’s. 
his lines flow fpontaneoufly from the 
eart, in defcribing the feenery, the 
characters and the events around him, 
It is impoffible to read this poem without 
being interefted, and without perceivin 
that the author is endowed with feelings 
and accomplifhments of a fuperior kind. 
To this poem -are fubjoined five fmaller 
pteces, namely, Afia, an elegy, written 
in Marmorica Bay, during the refidence 
of Sir Ralph Abercromby’s army there, 
in February 1801 ;—Cintra ;—The Leaf; 
—The Rofe ;—-and The Old Man’s Re- 
flections. Sg) 0 See ee eee 
«© The Poetical Regifter, or Repofitory 
of Fugitive Pieces, for1801."" “This col- 
leftion is formed ~with confiderabte tafte 
and judgment, but we object to the in- 
troduction of letters from individuals, of. 
biographical memoirs and critical remarks. 
‘« Verfes, Social and Domeftic, by 
George Hay Drummond, A. M.” Thefe 
Poems are dedicated by Mr. Dru nmond. 
to the departed f{pirit of a beloved wife, 
the graces of whofe perfon, and the vir- 
tues and accomplifhments of whofe reind, 
for many years attached him to her with 
the fondeft affection. The Poems are ex- 
tremely elegant and pathetic: no mimic 
forrows are here obtruded to fteal the tear 
which fhould ever be confidered as the 
facred folace of real grief. Thefe are 
the genuine, the chafte, the touching ef- 
fufions of a feeling heart, which had to 
mourn the fucceffive lofs of feveral chil- 
dren and a much loved wife. The fol- 
lowing lines, written during the laft flage 
of a journey home, afford an elegant and 
fair {pecimen. at 
<¢ Haft thou not feen two pearls of dew 
The rofe’s velvet leaf adorn ; ptt 
How eager this attraction grew, 
As nearer to each other berne? 
