POEMS, NARRATIVE AND LYRICAL. BY M. MOTHERWELL. The public has, in this instance, forestalled critical judgments. Its testimony is applausive and unanimous. Mr. Motherwell's stray pieces, which already enjoy a most extensive and genial kind of popularity, are here collected into a handsome small volume, well fitted to occupy an honoured place in any select modern cabinet collection of favourite authors. It is needless to say how well we conceive this volume entitled to a distinguished nook. POEMS BY ALFRED TENNYSON.+ Mr. Tennyson's new volume contains many good and a few beautiful pieces; but it scarcely comes up to our high. raised expectations of the author of the Poems chiefly Lyrical. We must return to it more at leisure. THE BROKEN HEART, A METRICAL TALE. This is a rather unlucky subject, redeemed by much that it is beautiful in thought, feeling, and language; though, as an entire poem, the production is more distinguished by elegance and careful elaboration, than force of imagination, or the simplicity of conscious power. THE WANDERING BARD AND OTHER POEMS. This is one of those poems of which a certain number appear every year, and the average of which has of late years prodigiously increased. In the Wandering Bard, there is a thread of story; but the poem is chiefly sentimental and contemplative. The writer is more eminent in the spirit than in the sleight of his craft. He assuredly wants the organ of tune, if he possesses the ordinary number of fingers, which might partly have supplied its place, and spared us many rugged lines. MEMOIRS OF DR. BURNEY, BY HIS DAUGHTER, MADAME D'ARBLAY. Those and they are many-with whom the authoress of Evelina and Camilla, is a love and a memory of youth, will eagerly open these volumes, be, perhaps, at first somewhat disappointed, but again return some true, to their perusal, and find though sadly faded images of what was Among the many once so delightful. volumes of reminiscences we have lately had, these are entitled to hold a high place, all eminence being comparative. But with something to interest and instruct, there is certainly a good deal that is tedious, and a prodigious deal that is de trop. If it were not felt becoming in critics to look reverentially at Madame D'Arblay's Memoirs of her father through Robertson, Glasgow, Pp. 232. Moxon, London. Pp. 163. Tait, Edinburgh. Pp. 147. Anderson, Junior, Edinburgh. Pp. 135. In 3 vols. 8vo. Moxon, London. the veil of Miss Burney's early fame, there would be knitting of brows, if not decided marks of languor, and disappro bation of much of her books. It has always struck us that Mrs. Thrale's coterie, and, still worse, the small place in the court of Queen Charlotte, spoiled and chilled our originally charming, natural, and lively Miss Burney. When Burke, on the appearance of her second novel, said, "Die to-night, Miss Burney!" he spoke as the true prophet of her literary reputation, which was crowned by Ca. milla, and thenceforth declined and fell. MEMOIRS OF THE LATE JOHN MASON GOOD. BY OLINTHUS GREGORY." The life of this truly excellent man forms the seventh volume of the Select Library. The first section, containing the Life, is of interest. The second, which is a review of his publications, is occasionally prolix. THE BUCCANEER, BY MRS. HALL.† This romance comes under the class historical, we presume, from Cromwell and Milton being occasionally introduced, and the former, with his family, mixed up with the narrative. It is a work in character somewhere between the romances of the American Cooper, and those of Mr. Horace Smith; and the agents are, as in those cases, bravoes, knaves, rufflers, odd people of the olden time, wild beldames, and daring outlaws. The story possesses considerable interest from the progress of the plot, but more from the descriptions and characters. There is a heroic and devoted Constance, contrasted with a lively Lady Frances, a daughter of the Protector; these ladies are neither so rich nor rare as a certain charming Barbara, the waiting damsel of the former. She is the daughter of the Buccaneer, and a true and original woman, delineated with feminine delicacy and grace. A very delightful chapter, referring to a period of ten years subsequent to the events which close the tale, concludes the work most happily. but the OTTERBOURNE, A ROMANCE. This, which is a tale of the chivalry of the Bor ders, is not, in our judgment, among most successful of Mr. James's romances; or perhaps we are getting tired of the thing altogether. The story relates to the state of the Borders, and of the kingdoms of England and Scotland previously to the battle from which the romance takes its name. Save mannerism and rigid truth of costume, there is nothing remarkable in the book. The author is more happy in catching, not the language, not the idiom, but the queer words of the age he depicts, than its spirit; and with human Fisher, and Fisher and Jackson, London, Pp. 398. t Bentley, London. 3 vols, Bentley, London. 3 vols. nature at large, his characters have small concern. There are two fair cousins, a blush and a pale rose, and a sweet and a dignified maiden; there are domineering and ferocious chiefs, and a gallant squire of low degree, who deserves to win, and does win his spurs, and a fair lady and her broad lands; and there is also Harry Hotspur himself, and battles, captures, and escapes in large abundance, and still there is much wanting to make even a tolerably good imitation of Sir Walter; which in the historical romance is all that any one now looks for. for infancy. Some of its little stories are really touching. "My own Infancy, in spite of the Evil One," is one of these; and another is Poor Bessy, and a third, My Brothers and Sisters. But the Frosty Day is not so right; and mamma should not tell her darling, with the tippet and cloak, and shoes and stockings, that the poor little girls sliding on the ice barefooted are "quite happy," with "their little pink feet and toes, just like pigeons' toes," and that "they don't feel it, because they are accustomed to it." We can assure the "little darlings" that the poor boys and girls do feel it, and that it will be the duty of the children with the shoes and tippets, if they are good children, as soon as possible, to think how they may best contribute to obtaining for the pink-toed children, comforts which are equally necessary or agreeable to all children; and, in order to do this, they must not be brought up in the belief that though the poor bear, they do not feel, hardship. The cook, when she flayed the eels alive, believed they were used to it, and did not feel it; but she was mistaken. The moral of all this is, that children's books are most difficult compositions. TALES OF THE MANSE.* We are to THE EXCITEMENT is a neat small tures. THE INFANT ANNUAL. Unless reading and writing do come by nature, it is not likely that the INFANT ANNUAL can be otherwise than a sealed book. The Infant Annual is, nevertheless, a nice, neat, pretty nursery tome, for childhood, if not Blackie and Son, Glasgow. Pp. 272. + Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh. ↑ Ibid. NO, X.-VOL. II. EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY, Vol. X.* Humboldt's Travels. By Mr. Macgillivray. It is next to miraculous that this rich mine was left untouched, until it suited the convenience of Messrs. Oliver and Boyd, to lay open its wealth to the public. They have done so in another of their neat, well-executed, compendious volumes; and, in one word, have given us the substance of the collected treasures of the first of modern travellers, Humbold for five shillings! We give them thanks for the enterprise; nor do we forget that, unless there were, as in this case, talented Mr. Macgillivrays, to give effect to such literary speculations, and to set in motion the printing-presses, we could have no such publications. To both author and publisher we, therefore, give the honour due, and warmly recommend their joint labours for the amusement and information of mankind. NIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE; or, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. with the dazzling and fantastic passions of the rich exhibited in "The Two Janes." In return, we have more impres. sive pictures of the gentle power of self. control, and the rich treasures of household affection. "The Quaker Family" is the most beautifully elaborated picture we have seen of the folly of excessive restraint of the playful emotions. "The Two Scotch Williams" is a tale which is at once similar and dissimilar to that of the Westminster Boys. It traces the progress of the fortunes of two bold and original minds, through an adverse world. The heroes have neither the dark glossy grandeur of Hastings, nor the glittering raciness of Thurlow, nor the plaintive wildness of Cowper; but, in return, they have a strength of purpose, a truth of feeling, and a loftiness of aim, that impresses us with the sense of a simpler and sublimer greatness. "The little Ferryman" displays eminently the author's powers of embuing, with depth of sentiment, the plain pictures of every-day reality. The talents developed in this volume are, in short, different from those displayed in its predecessor, in kind, not in degree. As a mere work of taste, it is eminently delightful; as a work with a moral, it assumes the true station on the confines of the land of imagination and sound judgment. In one word, the author's morals are fitted to advance the pure and practical creed of the citizens of a free island. LITERARY NOTICES. MR. MURRAY is preparing for publication a new Monthly Work, illustrative of the pages of Holy Writ, consisting of Views of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Bible. It will appear in the month of February next, and will be called "Landscape Illustrations of the Old and New Testaments." The Drawings, exclusively made by J. M. W. Turner, R. A. are copied from original and authentic Sketches taken on the spot by Artists and Travellers-the utmost regard being paid to the fidelity of the views. The Plates will be engraved by William and Edward Finden, and other eminent artists under their superintendence. They will be executed in the best style of the art, and sold at a very moderate price. A detailed Prospectus and a Specimen Plate will be issued immediately. DR. BOOT is preparing for publication, in two octavo volumes, to be published in Jan. uary, a Memoir of the Life and Medical Opinions of Dr. Armstrong, late Physician of the Fever Institution of London, and author of Practical Illustrations of Typhus and Scarlet Fever; to which will be added, an Inquiry into the Facts connected with hose Forms of Fever attributed to Malaria Marsh Effluvium, MR. HURST is preparing for publication, in Monthly Volumes, The Dramatic Library, comprising all the Standard Dramas in the English Language. Illustrated with Remarks Critical and Biographical, forming a complete History of the English Stage dur volume will be published on the 1st of Januing its most interesting periods. The first ary, 1833. THE Dramatised Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, uniform with the Dramatic Library, is also preparing for publication, and will be ready for delivery on the 15th of January next. MR. TAYLOR has a Life of Cowper nearly ready for publication, which will contain a more complete view of the Poet's religious character than has hitherto been given to the public; together with a variety of interesting information respecting some parts his personal history, not before generally known or correctly appreciated. To be comprised in one volume, demy Svo of THE First Number of the Parent's Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction, forming a monthly series of highly useful and interesting reading for young people, will appear in a few days. This attractive work will be published at such a moderate price, as to be within the reach of all classes of the com munity. FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING (the oldest but one of the English Annuals) has this season added the talent and Interest of the Winter's Wreath to its other attractions--the latter work being now combined with it. It retains its usual style of elegant binding, and grand array of highly finished engrav ings by the first Artists, while its carefully selected literature comprise contributions from the most popular and eminent writers, thus maintaining the high character of excellence for which this Annual has always been distinguished. THE Comic Offering, edited by Miss Sheridan, bound in an embossed Morocco cover, is embellished with upwards of sixty most humorous designs by various comic artists, and enriched with facetious contribu tions by the principal female and other talented writers of the day. WE understand that the new volume of the Continental Annual will this season appear with attractions which no other Annual can possibly exceed, not only in the superiority of its embellishments, which are being engraved in the highest style of the art, from original drawings and paintings by Roberts and Parris, but in its literature, which is exclu sively contributed by the talented author of Pelham, Eugene Aram, &c. The New and beautiful style of the binding will also be in accordance with its other attractions. CAPT. HEAD'S Overland Journey from India is now nearly ready for publication, in large folio, with elegant plates, illustra tive of India, Arabian and Egyptian scenery, and accompanied by accurate plans and maps. This work will not only form a complete and highly interesting guide-book to the traveller from Bombay to Alexandria, but will gratify the merchant and the politi cian by showing the practicability and expe diency of having, by the Red Sea, a steam communication with our Eastern possessions, and the consequent means of defending them from Russian invasion to which they are at present exposed. A VERY excellent work is now at press, entitled The Scripture Manual; or, a Guide to the proper Study and Elucidation of the Holy Scriptures, by a new and corrected arrangement of all those correspond. ing passages, dispersed throughout the Bible, which relate to the most important subjects, classed under appropriate heads, and in alphabetical order. Designed to set forth, in the pure language of Scripture, the Rule of Faith and Practice, and to afford assistance to family and private devotion. THE Third Part of the Byron Gallery has engravings by Wm. Finden, Bacon, Goodyear, &c., after original designs by Howard, E. C. Wood, Richter, and Corbould. These, we understand, surpass the former numbers of this splendid publication. MR. STEPHEN, the author of The History of the Reformation, has just completed his new work, entitled "The Book of the Constitution, with the Reform Bills abridged," -embracing, amongst a variety of interesting information, our Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, Civil and Military States, The Revenue, National Debt, Courts, Feudal System, Poor Laws, Tithes, &c. &c. A DESCRIPTION of the Chanonry, Cathedral and King's College of Old Aberdeen, in the years 1724-5, illustrated with plates, is nearly ready, in demy 12mo. ON the 1st of January, the first Monthly Volume of a cheap series of Original Novels and Romances, by the most popular authors of Europe and America, conducted by Leitch Ritchie, and Thomas Roscoe; comprising "Schinderhannes, the Robber of the Rhine," by Leitch Ritchie, author of the "Roma.ce of French History," "Heath's Picturesque Annual," "Turner's (J. M. W.) Annual Tour," (forthcoming,) &c. &c. Banim, Fraser, (Kuzzilbash) Victor Hugo, Galt, and other writers of the first eminence will immediately follow. Arnold's Thucydides, vol. 2, 8vo, 14s. Morrison's Portraiture of Modern Scepti- Nights of the Round Table, 12mo, 2nd Edinburgh Cabinet Library, (Humboldt's Paris, or the Book of the Hundred and Tales and Conversations, by Emily Cooper, 3s. Lanzi's History of Painting, 6 vols., 8vo, Anstice's Greek Choric Poetry post, 8vo, Peter Parley's Tales, 280 cuts, 12mo, 5s. Valpy's Classical Library, vol. 36, 4s. 6d. Arrowsmith's Modern Atlas, 8vo, 78. The Buccanneer, 3 vols., 17., 11s. 6d. 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By Atkinson on the Marketable Tithes, 8vo, Shelford on the Law of Lunatics, 8vo, 11. Outlines of Pathology, 8vo, 10s. 6d. 10s. Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern, 8vo, 128. Coventry on the Stamp Laws, 8vo, 15s. Lodge's Genealogy of British Peerages, post 8vo, 16s. Mainwaring's Instructive Gleanings, &c., Rev. R. Hall's Works, vol. 6, 16s. A Harmony of the Four Gospels, 8vo, 128. Outlines of Physiology and Pathology, 8vo, The Wandering Bard, a Poem, 5s. 14. 1s. FINE ARTS. original. It is good that we are old in age, and withered of substance, else how should we mouth and babble about Ianthe, thou pattern of excelling sweetness! Truly, Mr Westall, you must have made the young blood of many a fiery-mooded boy leap in his very veins at this face of yours; she is, -"But words are wanting to say what,Think what a girl should be, and she is that." It is a pleasure, however, to find fault with what we cannot enjoy, the outline of the nose is unlovely-confident we are right! FINDEN'S LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRA TIONS OF BYRON.-PART 9.* Νο work that ever issued from the press more thoroughly fulfilled the professed objects of the publishers, or realized the expectations raised by the first number than this. Each "Part" is excellent, and, depending upon its own intrinsic merits, needs no complimentary contrast, or estimation by degrees of comparison with its predecessor. The contents of the present number are: 1. Cape Leucadia-Copley Fielding. 2. Venice-Harding, from a 3. Cork Convent, Sketch by Lady Scott. 4. Castle of Ferrara Cintra-Staufield. 5. Ianthe-Westall. 6. PeProut. trarch's Tomb-Cattermole. 7. Seville E. Finden. Fielding has made a beautiful drawing of the Cape, and the Lover's Leap; the water in the foreground is liquidity itself. Harding's Venice is a charming picture. Prout, that living parallelogram, in his Castle of Ferrara, is as square as Finden's Seville, is a sweet little the manner in which the task is prousual. Fast Castle, representing the vignette; ditto, Petrarch's Tomb by Cat- ceeding. The extraordinary pictures of residence of the Master of Ravenswood, is this extraordinary and curiously-named an appalling place to look upon : desolation, man, must, we should think, well nigh dim, dark, and dismal, reigns throughout defy engraving altogether. Every figure the scene. termole. LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. No. 9. (No. 8, lost, mislaid, or not received.) This pleasing little work continues to hold on the even tenor of its way;' and those who originally patronized it as a fitting illustration to the possessed productions of the most popular author of our times, have no reason to be dissatisfied with The other scenes the Links and every outline, thanks to Mr Finden, of Eyemouth, Dunstaffnage, Inverary is here distinct; we should like to see the Pier, are pretty drawings. "Miss Ward * Murray and Tilt, London. our, in silent terror, took up the letter," says the quotation from the Antiquary; |