O04 
from fisifhing them himfelf. The whole 
are engraved in aquatinta, and celoured 
to the effect cf drawings. 
es 4a Effay on Rural Architedure, i- 
lufirated with Original and Economical 
Dejigns; beiag an Attempt alfo to refute 
by Analogy the Principles of Mr. Malton’s 
éffay on Britifh Cottage Arckitefure, fup- 
ported by feveral Dzfigns. To which are 
edéed, Rural Retreats and Villas in the 
Geibic Caftle, Roman and Grecian Styles 
ot Architedinre, ce. Se. dehgned by 
RICHARD ELSAM.” 
There is a great deal of what may be 
calied fage-tyick in this volume: when 
we fee plaus for building a {mall houfe in 
the fiyle of a chateau, and a villa in that 
of an abbey, a calile, &c. we are ftruck 
with the bad tafte of an architect, who- 
could affociate two fuch incongruous tdias. 
The plates are pretty well drawn and 
neatly engraved. 
“< 4A Pitturefque Reprefextation of the 
Manacrs and Amufements of the Rufians, 
ta one hundred coloured Plates; with an 
accurate Explanation of each Plate, in 
Exclifo and French. In three Velumces. 
By JouN ATKINSON and JAMES Wate 
LER. 
We have had the coftume of China and 
of Turkey, and are glad to infer, that the 
patronage beftowed on that work has en- 
couraged an extenfion of the pian. The 
figures of this {plendid work are flight but 
cherafteriftic: the fir volume only has 
yet appeared, but the publication of a 
fecond 1s announced. ; 
<< Outlizes from the Figures and Compe- 
Silions upon the Greek and Etrufcan Vafes of 
the late Sir Wiliam Hamilton; with en- 
graved Borders, drawn and engraved by 
ihe late Mr. Kirk.” 
This very beautiful work, containing 
Retrofped of Domiftie 
fixty-two plates, is fele&ted from the two’ 
padlications cf tke late Sir William Ha- 
wtlton, the one in four volumes folio, and 
the other in three, edited by Tifchhbein. 
The prefent 1s a election; fome of the 
eriginal dehans being exceptionable cn 
tne fecre ut indelicacy. All of them are 
ciftinguithed by the beauty of the compo- 
fition, and the elegance and truth of the 
individual forms. The various beauti- 
ful borders (‘ays the editor) which fur- 
round thefe d ligns, were no! fo placed in 
ne origina, vales, but ferved there merely 
to ornament the hvndles and other parts ; 
nor were the border and figures whica 
were upcen te fame plate in this work, al- 
ways Upon the lame vafe :”” of thete differ- 
ent borders. the edotor juftiy cbferves, that 
nothing can cxcecd them to fmpncity,. i 
Literature.—=Poctry. 
variety, in elegance, in richnefs, or in- 
beauty, and that all modern ornaments 
fink in the comparifon. The introduétion 
contains fome judicious remarks from the 
differtation by M. D’Hanearville, infert- 
ed in Sir William Hamilton’s volumes ; 
and a fhort but fatisfattory explanation of 
the fubject reprefented, accompanies each 
plate. 
‘© Six Pifurefque Views in North 
Wales, engraved in Aquatinta by Alken, 
JSrom Drowings made on the Spot; with 
poetical Reflections on leaving the Coun- 
try. By the Rev. BRYANT BROUGH- 
TON, MA” 
This elegant volume is alike credita- 
ble to the author, as a draftfman and 
a poet. The fketches of Mr. Brough- 
ton’s percil are bold and ftriking, and the 
engravings are executed with great {pirit 
and delicacy. 
POEPRY. 
We have been much delighted in the 
peruial of two volumes of ‘« Poems by 
GeoxGE RicuarDs, M. A. late Fellow 
of Oriel College.” 
The firit of thefe contains two dramatic 
pieces on the m: del of the Greek theatre ; 
the fecond confilts of odes and mifcellane- 
cus poems. The modern attempts to in. 
tereft by an attention to the fevere model 
of the Greek drama have been very un- 
fortunate ; Mr. Richards, however, has 
caught the fpirit as well as the manner of 
his great exemplars, and has fucceeded in 
producing two. tragedies, Emma, and 
and Odin, which will be read with pe- 
culiar pleafure by tho'e who are ac- 
quainted with the fublme berror of So- 
phocles, and the grandeur and dignity of 
CEichylus. The choral odes avound with 
paflages of very high poetic merit, and the 
mifcel'aneous poems aie of furpafling ex- 
ceilence. Wecannot reiit the temptation 
to indulge our readers with the followin 
patriotic effufion, Ay 
Ode, written in Fuly, 1803. 
Britons, why, with towering might, 
Furious as the hurricane, 
Ruth ye tothe deathful fight p— 
’Vis for Albion’s happy plain : 
Tis for that delightful ifie, 
Where nature wears her fweetett {mile: 
"Where wantoning in flowery vales 
Plzy the odour-breathing gales; 
Where with a mildly-temper’d ray 
Shines the fummer’s beantcous day 3 
Where health, the buxom maid, abides 
On the uplana’s airy fides; 
While tributes from the Atlantic main, 
Etefan breezes blow, and fan the fruitful 
plain. 
"Tis 
