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is at length completed. This elegant 
work has been publifhing in numbers, 
for feveral years paft, and now makes 
two folio volumes, price 171]. 10s. They 
contain one hundred views of the prin- 
cipal Edifices in thefe magnificent-cities, 
executed in aqua-tinta, together with 
very interefting defcriptions, ingenious 
eriticifms, and-judicious obfervations., 
“ Coavper illuftrated, by a Series of 
Views in or near the Park of Wefion Un- 
derwood Bucks. accompanied with copt- 
eus Deferiptions, anda brief Sketch of the 
Poet's Life.” . ; 
This beautiful volume contains 
twelve views, in addition to the fron- 
tifpiece, reprefenting {fcenes in. the 
meighbourhood of Wefton and Olney, 
which the late Mr. Cowper teok much 
leafure in frequenting, and which he 
as defcribed with great fpirit and truth, 
in the fir book of his Tafk. The en- 
gravings of feveral objects for the illué 
tration of Cowper, fuch as the Peafant’s 
Neft, the Alcove, the Bridge, &c. ex- 
ecuted by Mefirs, Storer and Greig, are 
entitled to great praife for their fidelity 
aod beauty ; and the Account accom- 
panying them, is written in a very plea- 
fing manner. 
THE DRAMA. 
We thall not be detained long here. 
Mr. Boaben’s ** Maid of Brifiel’” has 
been acted with fuccefs at the Haymar- 
ket. The galleries are admirabie cri- 
tics! 
Mr. ALLINGHAM’s “ Marriage Pro- 
mie’ is better than the generality of 
pseces which are now brought forward 
for the ftage. Mr. Alingham is a young 
author, and, by the felecting of judicious 
models and the ftudy of mankind, may 
make a very reipefable one. 
Mr. Ripon’s ‘ Bonaparte; or, the 
Freebooter,” 1s a patrictic drama cf fome 
merit. 
“© The Royal-Penitent” is a facred dra- 
ma, by Mr. Joun BentTiey. 
“ Mrs. Wiggins,’ “* The Voice of Na- 
fare,” and a few others make up the 
meagre and uninterefting catalogue. 
POETRY. 
Mr. D’IsRAELrI-has publifhed a vo- 
lume of very elegant *‘ Narrative Poems.” 
‘They do great credit to the luxuriance 
of his imagination and the delicacy of 
his tafle. 
Tt is with great pleafure that we have 
perufed a volume of ‘* Poems on warious 
Subjeds,” by Mrs. GRANT, a lady who 
relides in a village which borders the 
{mali lake of Laggan,'and bears its 
Retrofpee of Domeftic Literature.—Drama, Poetry. 
name. ‘There is a ftrain of fimplicit# - 
and unaffected feeling in thefe poeme 
which will give them a permanent inte- 
ret. They are much to be recom- 
mended. . . 
Mr. WHiTe’s: ° Cliften Grove” isa 
poetical fketch, executed with much 
{pirit and tafte. 
Mr. Weston’s ‘© Poems on different 
Subjedis,” are among the many morti- 
fying {pecimens of miftakem genius and 
perverted powers. 
“© The Pidture; Verfes written im Lon- 
dou, May 28, 1803, fuggefted by a mag- 
nificent Landfcape of Rubens, in poffefioz 
of Sir George Beausnont. By the Rev. W. 
Liste Bowles.” 
This is in the richeft and moft lofty 
ftrain of poetry ; like the picture, it de- 
{cribes, a general magnificence and va- 
riety pervade it, while individual parts 
are finithed with aminutenefs which the 
hand of a mafter only can’ execute with. 
out! making them appear tidiculous; 
the light and fhade of the poem, as well 
as of the picture, are fo arranged as to 
form an harmonious whole, and the 
compofition is altogether grand. No 
apology is neceflary for tranfcribing the 
following pailage,which at once be{peaks 
the patriot and the poet : <2 Bulb $58 
Sce where the morning light, through the 
dark wood, oe 
Upon the window-pane is flung like fire. _ 
Hail ! c1rz and wore; but thou great work 
of art,. : Ls 
That; midft this poputovs and bufy fwarm 
Of men, doft fmile ferene,’as with the hues 
Of {weetef grandeft nature; may’ thow 
fpeak 
Not vainly of th’ endearments and bef joys: 
Fhat Nature yields. The manlieft heart, 
that {wells ‘ 
With honeft Englifh feelings (while the 
EVEs 
Saddened, but not caftdown, beholds far off. 
The darknefs of the onward-rolling ftorm) 
Charm’d for a moment by this mantling 
view, . 
Jts anxious tumult fhall fufpend: and, 
SSwoH, 
The penfive patriot fhall exclaim, ‘* thy 
{cenes, "3 : 
My own belov’d country, fuch the abode 
Of rural peace! and while the foul has 
warmth, wed >a 
And voice has energy, the brave arm 
ftrength, : Biehl 
ENGLAND, THOU SHALT NOT FALL! The. 
day fhall come, ~ ; 
Yes, and now is, that Tuov fhall-xirtr 
THe SELLE, 4: 
And woe to him who fets upon thy fhores 
His hoftilg foot ! proud vitor though he be, 
. His 
