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VIII. The Causes of the French Revolution.

Svo.

IX.-Essays and Orations, read and delivered at the Royal

College of Physicians; to which is added an Account

of the opening of the Tomb of King Charles I. By

Sir Henry Halford, Bart. M.D., G.C.B..

X. The Church and its Endowments; a Charge. By W.

Dealtry, D.D., F.R.S.

2. On the Use and Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical En-
dowments. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D.

XI.-Reports on the Navigation of the Euphrates. Submit-
ted to Government by Captain Chesney, of the Royal
Artillery.

2. An Account of Steam Vessels, and of Proceedings con-
nected with Steam Navigation in British India. Com-
piled by G. A. Prinsep.

3. Eastern and Egyptian Scenery, Ruins, &c., illustrative

of a Journey from India to Europe; with Remarks on

the Advantages and Practicability of Steam Navigation

from England to India. By Captain C. F. Head

XII.-Recollections of a Chaperon; edited by Lady Dacre.

2Aims and Ends: and Oonagh Lynch. By the Author

of Carwell'

XIII.-Piozziana

XIV.-The Present and Last Parliaments

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CONTENTS

OF

No. XCVIII.

ART.

I.-Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches durch Joseph von

Hammer. [History of the Ottoman Empire, by Joseph

von Hammer.]

II.-Narrative of a Residence at the Court of London. By

Richard Rush, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

Plenipotentiary from the United States of America,

from 1817 to 1825

III.-Bibliotheca Græca, curantibus Fr. Jacobs et V. C. F.

Rost. Vol. XIX.-continens Anacreontis, quæ ferun-

tur, Carmina, Sapphus et Erinnæ Fragmenta.

Ern. Anton. Mæbius

Edidit

2. Collections from the Greek Anthology. By the late

Rev. Robert Bland and others. A new edition, com-

prising the Poets included in Meleager's Garland. By

J. H. Merivale, Esq., F.S.A..

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283

322

349

349

IV.-A Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of the

English Race-horse. By R. Darvill, V. S., 7th Hussars. 381

V. The Inferno of Dante. Translated by Ichabod Charles

Wright, A.M..

VI.-Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de la Révolution de

1830. Par M. Alex. Mazas, Secrétaire du dernier

Président du Conseil des Ministres, nommé par

Charles X.

le Roi

VII.-The Port Admiral, a Tale of the War. By the Author

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. 464

ART.

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VIII.-1. The Adventures of Hatim Taï, a Romance. Trans-

lated from the Persian. By Duncan Forbes, A.M.

2. Customs and Manners of the Women of Persia, and their

Domestic Superstitions. Translated from the original

Persian Manuscript. By James Atkinson, Esq., of the

Honourable East India Company's Bengal Medical Ser-

vice

IX. Poems by Hartley Coleridge, Vol. I.

. 506

X.-1. Reflections on the Domestic and Foreign Policy of

Great Britain since the War. By a British Merchant.

2. Letter to Viscount Palmerston respecting the Relations

of England and Portugal. By William Walton.

3. A Second Letter to Lord Palmerston. By William Walton.

4. A Reply to the Exposé des Droits de S. M. Donna

Maria.

5. Portugal; or, Who is the lawful Successor to the

Throne? By a Well-wisher to the peace and independ-.

ence of both Portugal and Brazil

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522

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THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

ART. I.-The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley,
now first collected. With Notes by the late William Gifford,
Esq. And additional Notes, and some Account of Shirley
and his Writings, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. 6 vois.
London, 1832.

SHIRLEY at length takes his place among the poets of

England. His collected works are, for the first time, within
the reach of the common reader. A few years ago these volumes
would have excited more general interest, and stood a chance of
more extensive popularity. The admiration of our older drama-
tists was then at its height. The wonder and delight raised by
a vein of poetry so rich and so deep, almost suddenly disclosed,
tempted the public mind to imagine that its wealth was inexhaust-
ible, and, in the fresh ardour of enthusiasm, it refused to suspect
that much dross might be mingled with the precious metal. The
strong excitement, in those days, perpetually administered by mo-
dern poetry, kept the popular taste in a state prepared, and wrought
up, as it were, to receive with pleasure the force, the passionate
vehemence, the splendid imagery of our ancient theatre. Most of the
successful poets then living were professed admirers, some avoweİ
imitators, of the Elizabethan dramatists. They seemed to demand,
and obtained a favourable hearing for their masters in the art.

If latterly this ardour of the public mind has sunk into compara
tive apathy, and its curiosity languished into indifference, we are
not inclined altogether to ascribe this defection from the objects of
brief idolatry to its general inconstancy:-the blame must be borne,
at least in an equal share, by the injudicious panegyrists of our
older poets. Of these some had but a cold, an antiquarian, or a
bibliomaniac passion for these neglected writers-wey knes, wa
their invention, their poetry, their character, but their rarity; the
admiration rose and fell, not with the kindling of their inaqiaton,
or the thrilling of their inmost heart, but with the antivad
watched vibrations of Mr. Sotheby's or Mr. Evan's hammer;
their principles of taste were on the margin of a Roxburge cata
logue—and inestimable must be the merit of that drama worch was
not to be found in the Malone or the Garrick collection. But this
was innocent in comparison with the patronage of wother can,
by which the older dramatists were incumbered. These were a

ART.

VIII.-The Causes of the French Revolution.

Svo.

IX.-Essays and Orations, read and delivered at the Royal

College of Physicians; to which is added an Account

of the opening of the Tomb of King Charles I. By

Sir Henry Halford, Bart. M.D., G.C.B..

X.-The Church and its Endowments; a Charge.

Dealtry, D.D., F.R.S.

By W.

2. On the Use and Abuse of Literary and Ecclesiastical En-

dowments. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D.

XI.-Reports on the Navigation of the Euphrates. Submit-

ted to Government by Captain Chesney, of the Royal

Artillery.

2. An Account of Steam Vessels, and of Proceedings con-

nected with Steam Navigation in British India. Com-

piled by G. A. Prinsep.

3. Eastern and Egyptian Scenery, Ruins, &c., illustrative

of a Journey from India to Europe; with Remarks on

the Advantages and Practicability of Steam Navigation

from England to India. By Captain C. F. Head

XII.-Recollections of a Chaperon; edited by Lady Dacre.

2Aims and Ends: and Oonagh Lynch. By the Author

of Carwell'

XIII. Piozziana

XIV. The Present and Last Parliaments

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