Retrofped? of Domefzic Literature.—Postry. 
relics. The execution of 
not pleafe us ; the draw- 
fuch valuable 
the work does 
Ings, we think, are very faulty ; nor have 
the engravings any claim to fuperior ex- 
cellence. ‘Fhe illultrations are BDRe 
and the introduétory part contains fome 
interefting infurmation, The prefent vo- 
lume, ccntains fifty-nine gems, with de- 
{eriptions. The following are the fub- 
jets :—Jupiter 7Egiochus ; Clio, or the 
Mufe of Hittory ; Cupid’ and Pfyche, 
whofe hiftory is illuftrated by 12 gems ; 
the Roman Nuputials, or the Alaurandine 
Marri lage 5 ; Head of Priam; Apollo and 
Marfyss ; Soibined with the Palladium ; 
Jupiter We the Titans ; Fragments and 
Attributes of Jupiter; Acraius, or wirg- 
ed Bacchus; Bacchus comes Cupid 
curbing a Lion; Mercury prefenting a 
Soul to Elyfium ; Gymnaftic Exercifes ; 
Fragments and Attributes of Apollo; 
Egyptian Symbols and Hieroglyphics. 
eer re Coflume of the Ruffian Empire 5” 
iluftrated by a feries of feventy-three en- 
gravings, with defcriptions in Englifh and 
French. 
rene Coftume ¢ of the Hereditary States 
of the Heufe of Aujiria; difpiayed in 
fifty coloured engravings ; with Defcrip- 
tions, and an Introduction, by M. Ber- 
TRAND DE MOLEVILLE ; tranflated by 
R.C. Darras, Efq. 
Thefe magni feent volumes form part 
of a feries of engravings illuftrating the 
coftume of different nations. That of 
China and Turkey we have before men- 
tioned ; and in our laft Compendium the 
Repref edition of ‘the Manners and 
Amufements of the Ruffians, by Mefirs. 
ATKINSON and WaLLER, was noticed 
with deferved eulogy. Vhe es con- 
tinuation of this comprehenk ive feries is 
in no refpeét inferior to thofe volumes 
which have gone before. The plates re- 
prefenting Ruffian coftumes are profefledly 
copied from an original Ruffian publica- 
_tion brought to this country by Mr. 
Matchett. The drawings reprefenting 
the Auftrian coftume are {aid to be faith- _ 
fully copied from plates in a collection 
which lately appeared at Vienna under 
the title of hae a he des Etats de 1 Empe- 
veur. 
Prefixed 4 the Defcriptions feparately 
ailotted to each plate, is an Introduction, 
by M. Bertrand DE MOLEVILLE, ccn- 
taining a Sketch of the Hiftory of the 
Houle of Auftria and its Hereditary Do- 
minions, 
POETRY. 
Mr. Betrour has tranflated from the 
Spanifh the ** Fables of Yriate ;"-but bis 
MonTury Mac. No, 124. 
. parifon may be 
593 
verfion is deficient both in fidelity and ele- 
gance, 
Mr. ScortT, to whom the public is in. - 
debted for three elegant volumes of th 
Minftrelly of the Scottifh Border, has 
edited, from the,Auchinleck manufcripts, 
“ Sir Trifirem; a metrical Romance of 
the Thirteenth Century.” 
«“ The Sabbath” is a poem evincing 
ccnfiderable powers. 
“‘ The Wiccamical Chaplet ;" a felec- 
tion of original poetry ; comprifing fmal- 
ler poems, ferious and comic; .claflic: J 
trifles; fonnets; infcriptions and epitaphs, 
fongs and ballads; mock Hieroics 3 epi- 
grams ; fragments, &c. &c. ; edited by 
Georce HuppDssFoRD. 
«© The collection of verfes here prefent- 
ed to the public (fays Mr. Hidddesterd in 
i a prefatery advertt fement) , confilts 
chiefly of fmaller pieces written by gen. 
tlemen educated at the fame feminary with 
the editor of thefe poems, and was princi- 
pally made when the editor was refident in 
the univerfity. He hopes that the recep- 
tion they may meet with will not be lefs 
favourable on account of their being 1 in- 
terfverfed with trifles of his own.’ 
<< Martial Effufions of Aucient Times 3” 
aldrefled to the Spartan hofts to excite 
them to valour and difcipline in their con- 
fli€is with the Meflenians, and pre‘cribed 
aS permanent recitations by the republic 
of Lacedemon, to infpire their you: A with 
warlike fentiments 3 from the Fragme: 
of YyRTAUS. 
If it could for a moment be atiecied 
that the valour of Britons required to be 
roufed mm defence of their domeftic altars, 
thefe Martial Effufions of Ancient Times, 
trar nfla ated as they are with great fririt and © 
animation, would be* oppartunely offered 5 
butan enthufiaftic love ef freedom and in- 
O peou ates of any foreign yoke pervades 
all ranks of fociety, warms every b:fom 
from the monarch to the meaneft peafant, 
and will never fuffer true born Britons to 
hog a mean inplorious flavery, while an 
honcurable death in the field of battie can 
free them from it. 
Mr. Herperr has publithed the firit 
part of 6 Select Te thandie Poetry,” tranf- 
lated from the original, with notes, 
Some years ago Mr. Cottle publithed a 
Tranflaiion of Sxmund’s Edda ; ; acom- 
fituted between the 
powers of that gentleman and Mr. Her- 
bert, who will Prone be thought to 
bear away the palm. In the prelent vo. 
lume, however, Mr. Herbert has only 
given one complete tranflation from the 
Edda, the oe of Thrym ; but certainly 
oe that 
Hits 
