ADVERTISEMENT. THIS new edition of the OXFORD ENGLISH PRIZE POEMS owes its appearance to the following circumstances. The publisher having bought the copyright of the last prize poem, POMPEII, expected, as a matter of course, to reap the full benefit of his purchase. Such, however, has not been the case; the proprietors of the last edition of this collection having pirated and annexed it to their volume. The publisher, without doubt, might by legal proceedings have procured redress for this attack upon his property; but he has chosen rather to repay them in kind by printing the whole collection. The public will benefit by the competition. OXFORD, JAN. 14, 1828. |