EDITOR. Byron's Manfred is certainly but an Icarian flutter in comparison; his Sardanapalus is better composed, and more original. ODOHERTY. How do you like Nimrod and Semiramis ? EDITOR. That dream is a very frightful one, and I admire the conception of Nimrod. ODOHERTY. You know that I am not subject to nocturnal terrors, even after the heaviest supper; but I acknowledge that the ancestors of Sardanapalus almost made my hair stand on end; and I have some intention of introducing the ghost of Fingal in my "Black Revenge." The superstitious vein has not lately been waked with much success. I slight the conception of Norna in relation to fear. The scorpion lash, which Mr David Lindsay applied to the tyrant Firaoun, is not at all formidable to the reader; but there is solemnity and sentiment in the conception of the people being called away one by one from the festival, till he is left alone. That same piece of the Deluge would be very good, if it were not sometimes like music, which aims rather at loudness than harmony. or expression. The most elegant and well composed piece in Lindsay's book is the Destiny of Cain. ODOHERTY. How do you like the Nereid's love? EDITOR. It is vastly pretty, but too profuse in images drawn from mythology. However, there are many fables of the ancients on which poems might be successfully made even in modern times, and according to modern feeling, if the meaning of the fables were deeply enough studied. It does not necessarily follow that all mythological poems should be written in imitation of the manner of the ancients, much less in the pretty style of Ovid, and those moderns who have adopted the same taste. ODOHERTY, You do not think Mr Lindsay's Nereid French? EDITOR. By no means. It is free from any fault of that kind. In some of Wordsworth's later poems, there appears something like a reviving imagination for those fine old conceptions, which have been, and always will be. An age hath been when earth was proud Of lustre too intense To be sustain'd; and mortals bow'd The front in self defence. Who, then, if Dian's crescent gleam'd, The flitting halcyon's vivid dyes, And smooths its liquid breast to show These swan-like specks of mountain snow, White, as the pair that slid along the plains ‘. Of heaven, while Venus held the reins. ODOHERTY. Beautifully recited, and now touch the bell again, for we're getting prosy. Positively, Ensign, we must rise. EDITOR. ODOHERTY. Having now relinquished the army, I rise by sitting still, and applying either to study, or— Will you ring? VOL. XI. * 3 A EDITOR. 'Tis time to be going, I believe. I see the day-light peeping down the chimney. But sing one good song more, Odoherty, and so wind up the evening. ARIA. With boisterous expression. ODOHERTY. (Sings). THERE was a lady lived at Leith, a lady ve-ry stylish, man, And yet, in spite of all her teeth, she fell in love with an I-rish-man, A CHORUS CHRISTOPHER! nasty ugly I-rish-man, a wild tremendous I-rish-man, A tearing, swearing, thumping, bumping, ramping, roaring I-rishman, 2. His face was no ways beautiful, For with small-pox 'twas scarr'd across; Were almost double a yard across. O, the lump of an Irishman, The whisky-devouring Irishman The great he-rogue, with his wonderful brogue, the fighting, rioting, Irishman. 3. One of his eyes was bottle-green, And the other eye was out, my dear; Were more than two feet about, my dear. The rattling, battling Irishman The stamping, ramping, swaggering, staggering, leathering swash of an Irishman. 4. He took so much of Lundy-Foot, That he used to suort and snuffle-0; O, the horrible Irishman, The thundering, blundering Irishman The slashing, dashing, smashing, lashing, thrashing, hashing, Irishman. 5. His name was a terrible name, indeed, And whenever he emptied his tumbler of punch, The boozing, bruising Irishman, The 'toxicated Irishman The whisky, frisky, rummy, gummy, brandy, no dandy Irish man. 6. This was the lad the lady loved, Like all the girls of quality; And he broke the skulls of the men of Leith, Just by the way of jollity. O, the leathering Irishman, The barbarous, savage, Irishman The hearts of the maids, and the gentlemen's heads, were bother'd, I'm sure, by this Irishman. I think I hear the rattles, Christopher. By Saint Patrick, there's a row in the street! Come along, old one! Up with your crutch! (Exeunt AMBO.) WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. LONDON. Mr Wordsworth has two new poetical works in the press. The first that will appear is entitled, "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent," and the other, "Ecclesiastical Sketches." The Songs of Anacreon of Teos, translated into English measure. By Lord Thurlow. Shortly will appear, Mr Bernard Barton's new volume, entitled, 66 Napoleon, and other Poems." The author of the Amatory Works of Tom Shuffleton, is about to publish a Poem in the manner of Beppo, entitled Faliero; or the Life and Adventures of a Neapolitan Libertine. Dedicated to the right honourable Lord Byron. A second edition of Mr Fosbrooke's Tour on the Wye, with Additions; and the Itinerary and Pictures of the Department, separated from the Historical. Will be published in the first week in May, a new work, entitled, Oriental Literature, applied to the Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures. By Rev. Sam. Burder, in two large vols. 8vo. At the same time will appear, in 2 vols. 8vo. the sixth edition, greatly augmented, of Oriental Customs, by the same author. A New and Impartial History of Ireland, from the earliest accounts, to the present time. By Mr McDermot. In 7 vols. 8vo. The work will go to press as soon as 500 signatures are obtained. 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Shortly will be published, in three volumes, crown octavo, Specimens of the Living Poets; with Biographical and Critical Prefaces, and an Appendix, containing Notices of such Political Writers as have Deceased during these last Twenty Years. By Alaric A. Watts. The principal names introduced in the two first volumes are as follow:-Byron (Lord), Bailie, Bowles, Bloomfield, Bland, Brooke, Barton, Crabbe, Campbell, Croly, Coleridge, Carey (Rev. H.), Crowe, Colton, Colman, Clare, Dale, Elton, Fitzadam, Gifford, Hogg, Hemans, Hunt (Leigh), Heber, Herbert, Holford, Hodson (Francis), Knight (Payne), Lamb (Charles), Lloyd, Lamb, Sir James, (late Bland Burges), Montgomery, Moore, Milman, Maturin, Mitford, Matthias, Opie, Procter (Barry Cornwall), Peacock, Pol In the Supplemental Volume will be found Biographical and Critical Notices, and Specimens of the Poetical Works of Brown (Dr, of Edinburgh), Beloe, Barrett, Cumberland, Dermody, Dibdin, sen. 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Compiled from the Papers of James Pawkie, Esq. late Provost of Gudetown. One vol. 12mo. Some alterations having been made, both in the plan and title of a Botanical Work by Dr HOOKER, announced in our Number for July, of last year, another Notice of it has been deemed expedient. It is destined to include, under the name of Exotic Flora, figures and descriptions of such plants, not natives of Great Britain, as are cultivated in our gardens, or, in defect of them, of such as can be faithfully represented from well preserved specimens in our Herbaria. In the selection of species, preference will, of course, be given to such as recommend themselves by their beauty, their history, their novelty, or some remarkable or little known characters in their flowers and fruit. The greatest pains will be taken in de lineating the different parts of the fructifieation, so as to exemplify the generic as well as specific characters, and the natural order to which the plant belongs; the ge neral neglect of which, in similar works, has caused an obscurity, which renders the ascertainment of a genus very difficult to the student, and which has greatly retarded the progress of the delightful science of Botany. The cultivation also, and the soil best suited to the individual, will not be omitted, nor the history of the plant, so far as it can be ascertained; so that the utility of the work will not be confined to the botanical student, but extend likewise to the horticulturist and general admirer of plants. As this will be the first publication of the kind to which Scotland shall have given birth, those unacquainted with the state of Botanical Science in this northern part of the kingdom may require to know what means the Author possesses of obtaining subjects of sufficient interest to insure the continuance of his work. The chief resource will be derived from the collection of the Royal Botanic Garden at Glasgow,-a collection which, by the munificence of the inhabitants of that city, aided by the University, has, in the short space of five years, attained to a degree of perfection scarcely to be paralleled in the annals of similar establishments, and comprising now scarcely fewer than 9000 species of plants. With a liberality that merits the Author's grateful acknowledgments, the magnificent new Botanic Gar |