The Works of Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes and Critical Notices on each Poem. By the Rev. G. Croly, LL. D. Vol. III. A. J. Valpy, M.A., London. The getting up of this edition of Pope is most finished and elegant. The popularity of the "Poet of Morals" is unfading, because he appeals to sympathies and principles which are universal and unchanging; and therefore it is, that every effort made to diffuse his writings deserves well of the public. We are, ourselves, greatly delighted to witness a return to the works of our Standard Authors, both in prose and verse: it is a proof to us that a more healthy taste is growing up in our Literature, and that we have touched the lowest point of degradation. No writer is better fitted to aid this improvement in public taste than the one before us: his smooth and harmonious versification, his polished style, and the exquisite finish he bestowed upon all his works, have made him the model of all subsequent authors, or rather, we should say, ought to have done so. Men who fling their thoughts carelessly together in rhyme, may be poets in heart; but unless aided by very superior genius, they will fail to become poets for the public. The loose texture of modern verse, its multitude of rythmical errors, has deprived a great portion of it, even of the praise, such as it is, of being rhymed prose, or rhymed nonsense. Dr. Croly, who edits the work, is himself a poet of no ordinary pretensions, and a finished critical scholar. His annotations are, therefore, valuable, and he has displayed considerable judgment and acuteness in his department. The illustrations to the third volume are a finely drawn pastoral scene, by Witherington, forming the vignette; and the frontispiece is an embodying of the image contained in the lines of the Fourth Pastoral, beginning, "Ye weeping loves, the stream with myrtles hide," &c. The work altogether is most attractive, and deserves a place beside the editions of Cowper, Johnson, and Byron. Ofelia; or, The Child of Fate. By Dona Francisca Pazos. 2 vols. Thomas Hurst, Loudon. Here are two volumes, breathing the impassioned feelings of a Lusitanian woman-one highly endowed with her sex's universal prerogative, quick discrimination of character, except when blinded by love. The growth of attachment, between the heroine and Candid, is well told; and the sketches of Anglo-Spanish society have some touches of vraisemblance in them. The chief interest of the story, however, turns upon Ofelia, whom the Authoress paints as a woman of a much higher morale than we believe to be common in le beau sexe-that is, we believe her conceptions are rarely so sublimated, and so purely intellectual, as she is here described. Passion, however, is well and naturally drawn. Her marriage with Tupac, a Peruvian, whilst her heart was full of vivid recollections of Candid, and the emotions to which this grafting of a second love upon a first gave rise to, reminds us of a homely English proverb, "Always be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new." The struggle between reason and passion in the last chapter, when Ofelia is left by her husband in the protection of Candid, most imprudently and cruelly we think, is forcibly depicted; and, fortunately, accident saves the bewildered victim. The imperfections of this work are many. Its idiom is foreign, and its style consequently turgid and stiff; and its sentiments, though pure and generous, are in many of their bearings decidedly un-English. INDEX TO BOOKS REVIEWED IN THE LITERARY PERIODICALS DURING THE MONTH OF JULY. A register of this kind has long been a desideratum with Authors, as few of them have opportunities for seeing the different literary papers and Magazines. Here we hope to relieve them from a dilemma-and the Index will also become a valuable and unique source of reference to libraries and the public at large, enabling book-buyers to seek out at once for a critical notice of every new work. Alcobaça and Botalha, Visit to the Monasteries of.-Athenæum 4th, Court Journal 18th, Quarterly Review. Algiers, with Notices of the neighbouring States of Barbary.-Metropolitan Magazine, Monthly Review, Architecture, Cottage, by Goodwin.-Athenæum 4th. Architecture, Elizabethan, Attempt to determine the exact character of.Athenæum 18th. Artist's and Young Lady's Instructor.-Athenæum 18th. Africa, Southern, Wanderings and Adventures in, by Stedman.-Athenæum 25th, Court Journal 25th, Literary Gazette 25th. Assassins, History of, by Von Hammer.-British Magazine 1st, Monthly Review, Spectator 4th, Constitutional Magazine. Albius, Poems by.-Metropolitan. Africa, South, Narrative of a Residence in, by Thomas Pringle.-Tait's Magazine. Aristophanes, Acharnenses of, by T. Mitchell.-Edinburgh Review. Berri, Duchess, Arrest of the.-Athenæum 4th. Barbary States, History and Present Condition of, by the Rev. M. Russell.— Lady's Magazine. Botany, Outlines of, by Burnet.-Athenæum 18th. Bridgewater Treatises: Habits and Instincts of Animals, by Kirby.-Literary Gazette 4th, Spectator 25th. Botany, British, explained and described.-Literary Gazette 25th. Brokedon's Road Book to Italy.-Metropolitan, Lady's Magazine, Tait's Magazine. Boy, The, and the Birds, by Taylor.-Monthly Repository. Belford Regis, by Miss Mitford.-New Monthly Magazine. Boardman, George Dana, Missionary to Burmah, Memoirs of.-Monthly Review. Bermuda, Sketches of, by Miss Lloyd.-Spectator 11th, Constitutional Ma gazine. Calverley, Harry; a Novel.-Athenæum 4th, New Monthly Magazine. 4th. Channing's Discourse before the Benevolent Fraternity in Boston.-Athe næum 18th. Channing's Political Writings.-Athenæum 18th. Chivalry, Rhenish, Tales of, &c.-Metropolitan, Tait's Magazine. Companion, The Court and Country, containing authentic tables of rank, precedence, &c. &c.-Literary Gazette 11th, Spectator 25th. Comedy, Chinese, Translation of-Athenæum 25th. Charity, an Exposition of; Text from the Corinthians.-British Magazine. Christianity, Historical Sketch of its Introduction into India, &c. &c., by Constantinople, Journal of a Visit to, &c., by Auldjo.-Court Journal 4th, Colonies, British, History of, by M. Martin.-Gentleman's Magazine. Cowper's Works, Grimshawe's Edition.-Literary Gazette 18th, Metropolitan, Church Polity, Dissertation on.-Tait's Magazine. Cotton Manufacture, History of, by T. Baines.-Edinburgh Review. Church, National, Vindicated, &c.-Monthly Review. Canada, Emigrant's Guide to.-Tait's Magazine. Dibdin, the Last Lays of.-Athenæum 4th. politan Magazine. - Athenæum 18th, British Magazine, Metro- Dictionary, Diamond, of the English Language.-Literary Gazette 25th, view. -, a General Biographical, &c., by Bellchambers.-Monthly Re- Doctor, The-Spectator 4th. Deontology, or the Science of Morality, by Jeremy Bentham.-Edinburgh Dalgarno, George, his Works.-Edinburgh Review. Empress, a Novel.-Athenæum 4th, Literary Gazette 4th, Constitutional Encyclopædia, Popular, Blackie's.-Athenæum 18th, Literary Gazette 4th, Ethiopia, Travels in, by Hoskins.-Literary Gazette 4th. English Dramatic Poets, Specimens of, by Elia.-Literary Gazette 4th, Me- Early Impressions.-Literary Gazette 11th. Evils, Social, and their Remedies.-Literary Gazette 18th. England, History of, by the Rev. T. S. Hughes.-Literary Gazette 18th, Con- Education, Physique, des Jeunes Filles, &c.-Literary Gazette 18th. Essays of Elia, the Last.-Quarterly Review. Foundling Hospital, The, Vindicated.-Athenæum 18th. Fortitude, Mrs. Hoflands.-Athenæum 25th, Monthly Review, Tait's Maga- zine. Faustus, &c. Translated by John Austen, LL.D.-Court Journal 25th, Me- Facts and Fictions.-Gentleman's Magazine. Fasti Hellenici; the Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, &c. by Clinton. Family Library: Plague Year, Journal of, by De Foe.-Constitutional France and Italy, Records of a Route through, by Rae Wilson-Spectator 18th. Giallo, Doom of; a Romance.-Athenæum 4th. Geology in 1835, by J. Lawrence.-Athenæum 4th. Geology, by De La Beche.-Athenæum 11th. Greece, History of, by the Rev. C. Thirlwall.-Athenæum 25th, Spectator Guide, The Young Pastor's.-British Magazine. Greenwood's Picture of Hull.-Gentleman's Magazine. Gypsy, The; a Tale.-Lady's Magazine. Great Britain, Men and Manners in, by Thornburn. - Metropolitan Grave and Gay, or May and Florence.-Metropolitan Magazine, Tait's Germanic Empire, The, by S. A. Dunham.-Lady's Magazine. Horse-Shoe Robinson, a Novel.-Athenæum 11th, Spectator 4th. Heavens, The, by Mudie.-British Magazine. Hale, Sir Matthew, Life of, by Williams.-Gentleman's Magazine. Hydraulia; the London Water-Works, &c.-Metropolitan Magazine, Tait's Horatii Flacci Opera omnia, &c., by Anthon.-Metropolitan Magazine. Herne Bay, Picture of.-Spectator 4th. Invalid, Efforts by an.-Gentleman's Magazine. Johnson, Life of, by Boswell; Murray's Edition.-Literary Gazette 4th, Me- Italy and Switzerland, Two Journeys through, by Thomson.-Literary Jamaica, History of.-Literary Gazette 25th. Iceland, A Visit to, in 1834, by John Barrow.-Lady's Magazine. Journal, by Mrs. Butler.-Lady's Magazine, New Monthly Magazine, Ireland, History of, by Moore.-Lady's Magazine. King's Court, Rolls of, from the reign of King Richard to the first year of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Metres of Boethius, translated, &c. Knight, The, and the Enchantress; and other Poems.-Gentleman's Maga Kean, Life of Edmund.-Metropolitan Magazine, New Monthly Magazine, Lady's Gift, or, Woman as She Ought To Be.-Athenæum 18th, Metropolitan Literature, English Prose, Historical Sketch of the Origin of.-Athenæum Lacock Abbey, Annals and Antiquities of, by Bowles.-British Magazine. Lusiad of Camoens, Specimens of a New Translation of, by Christmas.— Logan, The Laird of, or Wit of the West.-Literary Gazette 4th, Metropolitan Lexicon, Greek and English, by Dwight.-Literary Gazette 4th. Lord, The Banished.-Literary Gazette 11th, Spectator 4th. Lennox, History of the Partition of, by Napier.-Literary Gazette 18th, Law-Making, the Mechanics of.-Metropolitan Magazine, Monthly Review, Manufactures, Philosophy of, by A. Ure, M.D.-Athenæum 4th, Literary Meteorological Observations, Instructions for Making and Registering, by Macauley, Miss, Autobiography of.-Monthly Repository. Monikins, The, a Tale.-Athenæum 11th, Literary Gazette 11th, Spectator 18th. Melodies, Irish, Landscape Illustration of, with Comments, &c.-Monthly Martin, Discourses and Letters by.-Athenæum 18th. Mackintosh, the Rt. Hon. James, Memoirs of the Life of.-Athenæum 25th, Muse, The Rural, by John Clare.-Athenæum 25th, Literary Gazette 25th, Mephistophiles in England.-Athenæum 25th, Literary Gazette 11th. Mundi et Cordis: Poems and Sonnets.-Athenæum 25th, Monthly Repository. Meadows' Dictionary of English and Italian.-Gentleman's Magazine. Modern Geography, Descriptive Outlines of.--Gentleman's Magazine. Memoirs of a Serjeant, &c.; an account of his conversion.-Gentleman's Millennium, Sober Views of, by Jones.-Gentleman's Magazine. Mardens, The, and the Daventrys.-Lady's Magazine. Man, Immaterial System of, &c., by Eliza Hope.-Monthly Review. Mungo Park, Life of.-Tait's Magazine. Morals, Philosophy of, by A. Smith.-Spectator 18th. New England and her Institutions.-Gentleman's Magazine. Naturalist's Library, Jardine's.-Literary Gazette 4th. Nations, Wealth of, by Smith. New Edition.-Literary Gazette 4th, Spec- tator 11th. Novelists, Colburn's Modern.-Literary Gazette 4th. Neighbourhood, My, Tales of-New Monthly. North, The, Legends of, and Border Minstrelsy.-Tait's Magazine. Outre Mer, by an American.-Athenæum 11th, Literary Gazette 25th. Parent's Cabinet of Amusement.-Literary Gazette 11th. Pope's Works, edited by Dr. Croly.-Literary Gazette 18th, Lady's Maga- Prime Minister, The; a Poem.-Literary Gazette 25th. Peerage and Peasantry, Tales of.-Athenæum 4th, Literary Gazette 4th, Penruddock; a Tale.-Gentleman's Magazine. Pacha of Many Tales.-Athenæum 11th. Potomac, Voyage of the Frigate.-Athenæum 18th, Monthly Review. Plantagenet.-Athenæum 18th, Constitutional Magazine. Parliament, The Late Houses of, by Button and Bayley.-Athenæum 25th. |